The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung South Africa in partnership with the International and Public Affairs Cluster, School of Social Sciences, UKZN

South Africa is heading towards national elections in 2019. While South African foreign policy in the past has not been a hotly contested arena in electioneering, the 2019 elections fall in a time where the South African economy is under severe strain and President Cyril Ramaphosa urgently seeks to revitalise international relations in a $100 billion international investment drive. The state of global affairs however, requires an astute balancing act between pragmatism and morality.