US Secretary of State Marco Rubio – on Friday – announced that the United States had expelled the South African ambassador to Washington, accusing him of “hating the country and its president” Donald Trump.
Rubio declared in an article on “X” that the South African ambassador, Ibrahim Rasul, is “more welcome” in the United States, adding that he was “an ethnic sedition politician”.
Rubio considered that he had nothing to chat with him (messenger), and therefore he is “undesirable”.
And last month, the American Secretary of State announced that he would not participate in the group of 20 meetings this month in South Africa, accusing the government of the host country of following a “hostile in the United States”.
Rubio said at the time that South Africa “has very bad things”, accusing Pretoria of grasping private property, as well as the 20th summit to promote solidarity, equality and sustainability, as he described.
The question of land ownership raises a great political debate in South Africa due to the heritage of the colonial era and the apartheid period when the blacks were stripped of their land and deprived them of property rights.
In February, the American president also signed an executive decree to stop the financial aid of the State of South Africa and attacked the foreign policy of Pretoria, in particular with regard to the pursuit by Israel of the International Criminal Court for Génocide in Gaza.