The Trump administration has frequently provoked South -Africa on the legacy of Apartheid and criticism in Israel.
President Donald Trump’s administration has declared the South Ambassador -AFRICANA Ebrahim Rasool a person who is not pleasant in the United States.
In a post on social media on Friday, the Secretary of State of the United States, Marco Rubio, said that Rasool was « no longer welcome to our big country. »
« Ebrahim Rasool is a politician who makes race that hates America and hates pottus, » Rubio writeUsing the acronym of the President of the United States.
« We have nothing to argue with him and therefore he is considered a person who is not pleasant. »
Rubio linked his statements to an article in Breitbart’s right -wing media, in which Rasool said that Trump mobilized a « supremacist instinct » and « white victim » as a « dog whistle » during the 2024 election.
Rasool’s expulsion is the last of a series of movements of the Trump administration that punishes South -Africa, a country that has supported Palestinian rights and has helped to direct a case to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that accused Israel, an ally in the United States, of Genocidal acts In Gaza.
Earlier this week, the point of view of News Seen reported that Rasool, a veteran diplomat, has been denied what are usually routine opportunities to talk to officials in the United State Department of the United States, as well as with high -level Republicans, since Trump’s inauguration.
Rasool returned to his place as South Ambassador -Africa in the United States in January. Previously he played the role from 2010 to 2015, during the presidency of Barack Obama.
South Africa is governed by the African National Congress (ANC), a party that came out of the anti-Apartheid struggle that ended the white minority government in this country.
But his government has been a goal of private anger for Trump administration and allies such as the right-wing billionaire Elon Musk, which is of South African origin.
The Trump government has accused the ANC government of discriminating against its white population.
Trump has received 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 worldwide. Accelerated citizenship For white Afrikaners « escaping discrimination based on the government -sponsored race ».
The announcement was a response to a land distribution law aimed at addressing inequalities that have continued since apartheid. The South Government -says Trump is uninformed about the law, which has not been used to confiscate any land.
Vincent Magwenya, spokesman for the South President -African, Cyril Ramaphosa, told the Reuters News Agency that his country « did not participate in a counterproductive megaphone diplomacy », referring to Trump’s propensity to broadcast Missives on South -Africa on social media.
Despite the representation of Trump of the Afrikaners as a besieged minority, the South African authorities say that the economic legacy of Apartheid, during which white South Africans exercised almost complete control over the economy, persists on continuous levels of economic inequality between black and white residents.
A 2017 government audit found that while blacks represent 80 percent of the population of South -Africa, only 4 percent of private cultivation lands.
White Afrikaners who have the vast majority of the southwide cultivation lands -Africa form 8 percent of the population.
Rasool and his family were expelled from their home in the city during the Apartheid period, when the blacks moved to non -white non -white areas without almost almost economic resources or opportunities.
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