Cape Town, South Africa – South African President Ćiril Ramafosa appointed the former Deputy Minister of Finance as a Special Envoy Monday after The ambassador was expelled last month by Trump administration.
Ramafosa said Mcebisi Jonas will help South Africa renew their relationship with the USA, which got worse rapidly Since President Donald Trump took office.
Trump accused the Black Leader South African Government harassing a white minority At home and they also criticized their foreign policy as anti-American. He signed the executive order In February, the cutting American financing in South Africa is over these issues.
Trump continued his criticism in the social field of the truth this weekend, when he said now did not want to attend a group of 20 summits This year if it was held in South Africa, as scheduled. South Africa is holding the Rotary Presidency of the G20 Group of Developed and Development of the Nations and the world leaders and top diplomats for the summit in Johannesburg in November.
“Is this where we want to be for G20? I don’t think so!” Trump posted on Saturday.
In his post Trump reblogged his claim that South Africa allowed the plot of land from white farmers “And then they kill them and their families.”
The South African government denied White farmers have a seized country or are victims of race murders, as a trump card and his advisor in the South African born Elon Musk. South Africa says these claims are based on misinformation.
South Africa has passed through the controversial land for land expropriation that allows the land that the government does not take free of charge if in the public interest. It criticized some white minority groups As is the target of their country, although there was no land in the law yet.
Trump Executive Order also criticized South Africa to place a case in the International Court of Justice accusing us ally of Israel genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Trump administration stated that South Africa is monitoring anti-American foreign policies and supports the Palestinian militant group of Hamas and Iran.
The Ambassador of South Africa in the USA was expelled in March about the conversation that was organized on the webinar by Think Tank. In the conversation, who defended the new political dynamics in the United States, Ebrahim Rasool said that Trump launched “the attack on the grounds” and said that America is great movement a partial result of “supremacist instincts.”
US Secretary Marco Rubio said Race-Maiting Politician “who hated the trump card, declared him Person Non Grata and ordered him to leave the US Rasul Returned to South Africa on a welcome of heroes from supporters.
South Africa did not appoint a new ambassador.
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