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Government says it received distress calls, as daughter of ex-president Jacob Zuma accused of luring men to frontline<\/p>\n

South Africa\u2019s government is in talks with Russia to bring home 17 South African men fighting for Russia in Ukraine, after the men were allegedly tricked on to the frontlines of the war by a daughter of former South African president Jacob Zuma.<\/p>\n

Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla has been accused<\/a> in multiple lawsuits of luring the 17 South African and two Botswanan men to Russia in July, by telling them they would be training as bodyguards for her father\u2019s uMkhonto weSizwe political party or attending a personal development course.<\/p>\n

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Government says it received distress calls, as daughter of ex-president Jacob Zuma accused of luring men to frontline South Africa\u2019s government is in talks with Russia to bring home 17 South African men fighting for Russia in Ukraine, after the men were allegedly tricked on to the frontlines of the war by a daughter of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[86,12,25,130,26,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-europe","category-russia","category-south-africa","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"yoast_head":"\nSouth Africa in talks with Russia over men \u2018tricked\u2019 into fighting in Ukraine - World news<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/eunews.top\/index.php\/2025\/12\/16\/south-africa-in-talks-with-russia-over-men-tricked-into-fighting-in-ukraine\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"South Africa in talks with Russia over men \u2018tricked\u2019 into fighting in Ukraine - 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