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State Secretary Marco Rubio declared on Friday the Ambassador of South Africa in the United States “Person Non Grata”, describing him as “a politician who hates America.”
In the post on x Ruby He wrote that Ebrahim Rasool “is no longer welcome in our great country” and is associated with a report from the website of the conservative Breitbart News about the internet lecture, which the ambassador held on the foreign policy of Trump administration and its implications in South Africa.
“What Donald Trump triggers an attack on duty, those in power, mobilizing the superior against duties, at home. said In an internet event hosted by the South African Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Thinking.
Rasoo’s expulsion is the last episode in the rapid exacerbation of the relationship between Washington and Pretoria since Trump has taken over his duty.
South Africa has passed the proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice in late 2023, accusing Israel of violating international genocide laws during its war against Hamas in Gaza, which Israel strongly denies.
Last month, Trump froze the foreign help in South Africa, partly in retaliation due to the ICJ case, as well as his complaints about the policy of expropriation of praetors, which made the president and his advisor for billionaires from South Africa born. Elon musk.
In his lecture, Rasool added that Trump’s “superior attack on the duty” visible “in the USA’s domestic politics, the Maga movement.. In response not only to a superior instinct, but to very clear information showing major demographic shifts in the United States, which predict that the electorate’s body in the United States becomes 48 percent white.”
Marking the ambassador as a persona non grata is a rare and serious diplomatic move.
Last month Rubio skipped a meeting of external foreign ministers in South Africa after blame The pretorse of “anti -Americanism” and the work of “very bad things”, such as expropriation of private ownership and the use of summons to promote the equality of diversity and involvement and climate change.
Rasool, a diplomat veteran who has been loud in his criticism in the past, said before taking his place in December that he would put a “megaphone” of South Africa on Gaza while asking him to improve the flocks with Washington.
