The Trump administration has frequently disputed with South Africa about the inheritance of apartheid and the criticism of Israel.
President Donald Trump’s administration said South African ambassador Ebrahim Rastol a non-grata character in the United States.
Friday, in an article on social networks, the American secretary of state Marco Rubio said that Rasool was “no longer welcome in our big country”.
“Ebrahim Rasool is a politician who hates America and hates Potus”, Rubio wroteUsing the acronym for the President of the United States.
“We have nothing to chat with him and he is therefore considered to be persona non grata.”
Rubio linked his remarks to an article in the right -wing media Breitbart, in which Rasool would have declared that Trump mobilized a “supremacist instinct” and a “white victim” as a “dog whistle” during the 2024 elections.
The expulsion of Rasool is the last in a series of movements of the Trump administration to fall asleep, a country which supported Palestinian rights and helped direct a case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) accusing Israel, an American ally, of genocidal acts in Gaza.
Earlier this week, the SEMAFOR Journal pointed out that Rasool, a veteran diplomat, was denied the opportunities generally of routine to speak with the officials of the US State Department, as well as with high -level Republicans, since the inauguration of Trump.
Rasool returned to his post as Ambassador of South Africa to the United States in January. He previously held the role from 2010 to 2015, during the presidency of Barack Obama.
South Africa is governed by the African National Congress (ANC), a party which emerged from the anti-apartheid struggle which ended the rule of white minorities in this country.
But his government was the target of special anger for the Trump administration and allies like the right-of-right billionaire Elon Musk, who is of South African origin.
Trump’s government accused the OUD government of discriminating against its white population.
Trump nixed help in South Africa and, in February – at a time when the White House had almost completely closed refugee admissions for people fleeing violence and repression in the world – Trump offered accelerated citizenship For white Afrikaners, “escape discrimination based on the race sponsored by the government”.
The announcement was an answer to a law on the distribution of land intended to address the inequalities that have continued since the Apartheid era. The South African government says Trump is poorly informed of the law, which has not been used to confiscate any land.
Vincent Magwenya, spokesperson for the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, told the reuters news agency that his country “was not going to participate in diplomacy against the counterproductive megaphone”-referring to Trump’s propensity to issue missives on South Africa on social media.
Despite the representation by Trump of Afrikaners as a besieged minority, the South African authorities claim that the economic heritage of apartheid, during which white South Africans exercised almost total control over the economy, persists in the continuous levels of economic inequality between black and white residents.
An audit of the 2017 government revealed that if blacks represent 80% of the population of South Africa, they only hold 4% of private agricultural land.
White Afrikaners who have the vast majority of agricultural land in South Africa represent only 8% of the population.
Rasool and his family were themselves expelled from their home to Cape Town during the apartheid period, when blacks were forcibly relocated to non-white areas designated without resources or economic possibilities.
