PRETORIA -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was in South Africa on Monday for talks with one of its most important allies on a continent that is divided over Russia's invasion of Ukraine and related Western attempts to isolate it. He was to meet South Africa's foreign minister, Naledi Pandor, in a trip some opposition parties and the small Ukrainian community have condemned as insensitive. A ministry spokesman said Lavrov had arrived in South Africa on Monday morning. He and Pandor are expected to hold a joint news conference around 1000 GMT. President Cyril Ramaphosa's government regards South Africa as neutral in the conflict and has expressed a desire to ...Keep on reading: Russia’s Lavrov visits ally South Africa amid Western rivalry