Speech by Deputy Minister Alvin Botes during a debate in Parliament entitled, “The role South Africa can play in advancing its human rights ethos by supporting the global campaign for the immediate release of Venezuelan Parliamentary Leader Cilia Flores Maduro”, Cape Town, South Africa, 26 March 2026
26 March 2026
Honourable Speaker, Honourable Members, We are living through a period of geopolitical rupture in which the normative, institutional and political foundations of the post-1945 international order are being tested, strained and, in some cases, openly defied.
