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They’ve gone through another process rather than just declaring our Ambassador PNG [persona non grata]. So that’s the route that they have chosen, and we will have to respect the decision as a sovereign state,
We need to find time to engage with each other behind closed doors, where the US can raise their concerns with us, and we can also raise our concerns with them because it is not helpful to engage in megaphone and Twitter diplomacy. But we have to engage each other face-to-face on various issues of mutual concern.”
Ambassador Rasool has 72 hours to leave the United States and hence we are facilitating his return.”
Speaking to News24 on Saturday, Phiri said And then, from there, Pretoria will assess the next steps that need to be done and attend to replace him.”
So ensuring that we have a very capable and able replacement for our Ambassador Rasool is critical… And also with someone who carries the full authority of the South African government,
[So ... So] Rasool continues to point out the behaviour of the United States, even now is to support apartheid and genocide,
There's too much at stake to not work towards the repair of this partnership."
South Africa remains committed to building a mutually beneficial relationship with the United States of America,
It's no accident" that Musk has involved himself in far-right British politics and that Vice President JD Vance met with the leader of a far-right German political party before the elections there,
The supremacist assault on incumbency, we see it in the domestic politics of the USA, the Maga movement, the Make America Great Again movement, as a response not simply to a supremacist instinct, but to very clear data that shows great demographic shifts in the USA in which the voting electorate in the USA is projected to become 48% white,
the South African ambassador said We have expressed concern about the mischaracterisation of the situation in South Africa and certain of our laws and our foreign policy positions,
Ramaphosa said after Trump signed the executive order in early February We are guided by the Constitution, which places a responsibility on the state to take measures to redress the effects of past racial discrimination,
How South Africa responds to the current relations with the U.S. demands a lot of perspective from us,
he said, according to a more expansive version of his remarks in Engineering News, a South African publication For example, in terms of continuities inherited from previous U.S. administration, the Joe Biden administration started discussions for South Africa to be removed from the duty-free access framework African Growth and Opportunity Act, owing to some of our geopolitical stances,
We have noted the tweet by the US Secretary of State Mr. Marco Rubio. We will engage through the diplomatic channel.”
In its own post on X, South Africa’s Foreign Ministry said My job is to advance America’s national interests, not waste taxpayer money or coddle anti-Americanism,
The United States cannot support the government of South Africa's commission of rights violations in its country or its undermining United States foreign policy, which poses national security threats to our Nation, our allies, our African partners, and our interests,
In shocking disregard of its citizens' rights, the Republic of South Africa recently enacted Expropriation Act 13 of 2024, to enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners' agricultural property without compensation,
Ebrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates POTUS,
Rubio wrote, using the acronym for President of the United States What Donald Trump is launching is an assault on incumbency, those who are in power, by mobilizing a supremacism against the incumbency at home and … abroad as well,
said Rasool, who was on his second tour as ambassador to the US
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