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Trump Administration Kicks South African Ambassador Out of the U.S. After Breitbart News Report: ‘Persona Non Grata'

2025-03-15

[Breitbart] The Trump administration has ejected South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool out of the country, declaring him persona non grata after he gave a lecture claiming that President Donald Trump is a white supremacist leader.

The Trump administration has ejected South African Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool out of the country, declaring him persona non grata after he gave a lecture claiming that President Donald Trump is a white supremacist leader.

Rasool also had a history of supporting Hamas, which reportedly led American officials to avoid meetings with him.

Rasool’s ejection is the latest chapter in a confrontation between South Africa and the U.S. over South Africa’s expropriation laws and its alliance with hostile regimes such as Chin and Iran. South Africa equivocated on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and led international efforts to isolate Israel after the Hamas terror attack of October 7, 2023.

Courtesy of Fred, the New York Post adds:

The State Department did not have additional details about the ban, and it was unclear whether Rasool was even in the U.S. at the time the decision was made.

Rubio posted as he was flying back to Washington from a Group of 7 foreign ministers meeting in Canada.

It is highly unusual for the U.S. to expel a foreign ambassador, although lower-ranking diplomats are more frequently targeted with persona non grata status.

Rasool previously served as his country's ambassador to the U.S. from 2010 to 2015 before returning in January.

As a child, he and his family were evicted from a Cape Town neighborhood designated for white people. Rasool became an active anti-apartheid campaigner, serving time in prison and identifying as a comrade of the country's first post-apartheid president, Nelson Mandela.

He later became a politician in Mandela's African National Congress political party.

His ouster comes after Trump signed an executive order that cut aid and assistance to the Black-led South African government.

In the order, Trump said South Africa's Afrikaners, who are descendants of mainly Dutch colonial settlers, were being targeted by a new law that allows the government to expropriate private land.

The South African government has denied its new law is tied to race and says Trump's claims over the country and the law have been full of misinformation and distortions.

Trump said land was being expropriated from Afrikaners — which the order referred to as ''racially disfavored landowners'' — when no land has been taken under the law.

Posted by:Frank G

#1 Hopefully, just the first.

Posted by: Super Hose 2025-03-15 10:07

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