The United States has given sixty-two hours to the South African ambassador in Washington, Ebrahim Rasool, to leave the territory after being declared “Persona non grata”, Friday, by the head of American diplomacy. This is what the spokesman for the South African Foreign Ministry of Foreign Ministry said on Saturday March 15, Chrispin Phiri, in a brief press release, confirming information from South African media.
Marco Rubio, who is at the head of the US State Department, accused Ebrahim Rasool of being a “Racist politician who hates America” And the American president, Donald Trump, in yet another attack of the new American administration towards Pretoria published on X.
“Ambassador Rasol was about to meet strategic officials in the White House. This regrettable development has scuttled significant progress ”regrets Chrispin Phiri, after weeks of controversy and fears around the future of Pretoria within the AGOA trade agreement, which makes it possible to export certain goods without taxes to the United States.
“Regrettable”
South Africa has been particularly targeted by Washington since Donald Trump’s return to power. The tenant of the White House accused him, in a presidential decree cutting him his aid, of treating in a way “Unjust” The descendants of European settlers and attacked him for his complaint for genocide targeting Israel before the International Court of Justice.
In the wake of the South African presidency which judged the expulsion “Regrettable”the South African Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ronald Lamola, described him as “Unprecedented” with the public television news channel SABC.
“As part of normal diplomatic relations, an approach should have been undertaken with the ambassador to be explained on his comments”the South African diplomacy chief was surprised.
Ebrahim Rasool described Donald Trump as “Mobilizing a supremacism against the power in place” During an intervention in a webarial on Friday. “It is regrettable that we are the recipients of tweets not helping to repair our relationship”he added.
The episode aroused a lot of reactions in the first African economy. The Radical Effle Left Party, which arrived fourth in the elections last year with just under 10 % of the vote, accused Donald Trump in a statement on Saturday of being the “Large sorcerer of a world Klux KLAN KLAN”.