South Africas ties to Russia stretch back to the 1960s when the Soviet Union gave support to anti-apartheid freedom fighters.
Umubano w'Afurika y'Epfo n'Uburusiya watangiye mu myaka ya za 1960 igihe Leta Zunze Ubumwe z'Abasoviyeti zateraga inkunga abaharanira ubwigenge bwa apartheid.