Rwanda Is Ready For A Confrontation With Sa: Kagame

Rwandan President, Paul Kagame, says Rwanda is ready for a confrontation with South Africa if necessary.

His comments follow a claim by president Cyril Ramaphosa that the M23 rebels and Rwandas defense force were responsible for the deaths of 13 South African soldiers in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Kagame has also said South Africa cannot be a peace maker.

"On Monday and today, this morning, I spoke to the president of South Africa, on this matter because of their involvement in the Eastern Congo and he is also pretending to be playing a peacemaker role and has a force that has been fighting alongside FDLR. But he has been fighting M23 on the instruction of the Tshesekedi because these are the people who are not supposed to be in the Congo," charges Kagame.

"M23 are not Rwandans, please! These are Congolese and one time we accept it, and then next he says no, part of it is here and the other part is from Rwanda. Why do leaders of our own countries accept these allegations to go on forever, and just accept that we shall be manipulated by Tshesekedi Felix or whoever is supporting him? And South Africa even dares issue threats about what would happen after that and so on and so forth. Of course, we will see what threats they are talking about," he adds.