From The Guardian

South Africa has summoned Zambia’s high commissioner to explain a tirade by the country’s vice-president in which he castigated South Africans for being backward.

In an unusually frank interview in the Guardian on Wednesday, Guy Scott said: “The South Africans are very backward in terms of historical development. I hate South Africans. That’s not a fair thing to say because I like a lot of South Africans but they really think they’re the bee’s knees and actually they’ve been the cause of so much trouble in this part of the world.”

The comments ruffled feathers on social media and appeared to threaten otherwise cordial relations between the former liberation struggle allies.

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