Given South Africa is a member of BRICS, it's not likely. > In addition to commercial motivations, the new fiber optic Silk Road could also have geopolitical a

Given South Africa is a member of BRICS, it's not likely. > In addition to commercial motivations, the new fiber optic Silk Road could also have geopolitical and strategic implications. Russia and China evidently share a desire to shield themselves from U.S. and other Western intelligence agencies and probably believe that their own communications – both with one another and to and from Europe – will be better protected if cables run across their own territory rather than through the Indian Ocean or the U.S. The same motivation explains the announced Telebras cable, which will connect Brazil to Portugal without any U.S. technology, and the BRICS cable project, which will link Vladivostok to Brazil, via China, India and South Africa. https://thediplomat.com/2015/04/a-fiber-optic-silk-road/ https://thediplomat.com/2015/04/a-fiber-optic-silk-road/