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Kathmandu. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced the expulsion of South Africa’s ambassador to Washington, accusing him of hating the US and President Donald Trump.
The South African presidential office said on Saturday that the US decision to expel South Africa’s ambassador was “regrettable”. Announcing the expulsion of the ambassador, Rubio wrote on Friday, “The South African ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country.” “Ibrahim Rasul is a ‘racist politician who hates and despises America,'” Secretary of State Rubio said, quoting Trump.
“He has no basis for dialogue with us and is therefore declared ‘persona non grata’ in the United States. He will be considered a ‘persona non grata’ in the US. In diplomacy, a person who abuses special privileges granted under diplomatic etiquette and violates diplomatic etiquette can be declared an ‘inadmissible person’ by the ‘host country’.
The expulsion of an ambassador is a rare move by the United States, the latest development in the growing tensions between Washington and Pretoria. Trump had suspended US aid to South Africa in February and, citing the country’s laws, said that white farmers’ land could be confiscated.
Last week, Trump repeated his accusation that the government was ‘confiscating’ white land by saying that South African farmers were welcome to settle in the United States. Trump wrote on his Truth social platform, “Any farming family from South Africa who must flee the country for security reasons will be invited to the United States, providing them with a fast-track path to citizenship.” South African-born billionaire Elon Musk has accused the government of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa of having “blatantly apartheid land ownership laws.”
Land ownership is a contentious issue in South Africa. Three decades after the end of apartheid, most farmland is owned by white communities and the government is under pressure to implement reforms. At a G20 event in South Africa last month, Ramaphosa said he had “positive” conversations with US President Trump shortly after he took office in January. The relationship, which was supposedly improved, has since been exposed as a ‘leak’.
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