Johannesburg – U.S. President Donald Trump nominated a conservative media critic and commentator Pro-krana Leo Brent Bozell III as an ambassador to South Africa. Move on Tuesday comes during Tense diplomatic relationships With the state, including over their attitude on the conflict of Israel-Hamas.
Nomination of Bozela, open fans Israel, comes at a time when relations between South Africa and the USA are low. Bozell must confirm the American Senate.
Frosty relations have seen South Africa ambassadors in the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, declared a person who is not a grata of the US government Through his comments on Trump and his administration and was forced to leave the country last Friday.
Trump was critical of South Africa’s attitude on the conflict of Israel-Hamas, including a crop in the Tribunal and accusation Commit genocide in Gaza.
He also falsely accused the South African government to go to the country’s minority and illegally by taking his country through a recently adopted Expropriation action and offered a refugee status in the United States
Trump also signed the executive by freezing all financial assistance in South Africa.
Bozell is the founder of the Media Research Center, the Television Council of Parents and other conservative media organizations. His son, Leo Brent Bozell IV, was one of the people who broke the US Capitol 2021. year and was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison last year.
Bozell was previously nominated to refer to the American Global Media Agency, but his nomination was eventually withdrawn.
The President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphos has yet to announce the new US Embassador of the USA, but this week he claimed that the reports of white people in South Africa based on “completely false narrative.”
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2025-03-26 00:37:00