ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula said the party had resolved to work with the ‘progressive forces’ in South Africa and mobilise against US ‘imperialist aggression’. Here’s where SA’s political parties stand. South Africa’s political parties are divided on their positions on the recent US military attack in Venezuela, in which long-serving President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were captured.
The US carried out “a large-scale strike” against Venezuela on Saturday, 3 January 2026, after months of massive US military build-up off the Latin American nation’s shores and a series of deadly airstrikes onalleged drug-smuggling vessels. Following the raid, US President Donald Trump said America would “run” Venezuela until a transition of power could take place, but did not indicate when this would be or how it would be done. South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation on Saturday called the attack and Maduro’s capture “a manifest violation” of the United Nations (UN) Charter, and urged the UN Security Council to convene on the matter.
The council debated the implications of the US attack on Monday. South Africa’s Acting Deputy Ambassador to the UN, Jonathan Passmoor, told the Security Council that the US action in Venezuela “wantonly violates the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence” of the Latin American country,reported Daily Maverick’s Peter Fabricius. Also on Monday, Maduro and Flores appeared in a New York court onseveral chargesrelated to drug trafficking.
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The ANC, following a meeting of its National Executive Committee (NEC) on Tuesday said it condemned the “acts of aggression” by the US against Venezuela, which “constitute a serious violation of international law, national sovereignty and the principles governing peaceful relations between states”. ANC Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula told the media that Maduro’s “kidnapping” undermined the UN Charter and threatened global peace and stability. He said the party called on “peace-loving people in our country, across the continent, and around the world, including within the United States, to call for the immediate and unconditional release” of Maduro.
[STATEMENT] ANC CONDEMNS U.S. IMPERIALIST AGGRESSION AGAINST THE BOLIVARIAN REPUBLIC OF VENEZUELAThe African National Congress condemns the recent acts of aggression directed at the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, which constitute a serious violation of international law,…pic.twitter.com/2S0sftMYRO
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