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Tariff turmoil: South Africa opts for diplomacy over quick retaliation in trade dispute
The government is navigating yet another storm, with no clear strategic response to the US trade tariffs imposed this week ...
Opinion
AllAfrica on MSN10hOpinion
Why Was South Africa's Ambassador to the U.S. Expelled? a View of the Ebrahim Rasool Affair [analysis]
In a rare move, the Trump administration expelled Ebrahim Rasool, South Africa's ambassador to Washington, in mid-March 2025. In a post on X, US secretary of state Marco Rubio accused Rasool of hating ...
AllAfrica on MSN10h
'I Will Wear My Persona Non Grata As a Badge of Dignity', Said South African Ambassador Expelled By the U.S.
"We must enter into trade negotiations with the USA because our economy and our people need them. But we must never trade our sovereignty, lest we be told that China and Cuba cannot be our friends," ...
Why was South Africa’s ambassador to the US expelled? A view of the Ebrahim Rasool affair
The consensus is that it was Ebrahim Rasool’s responsibility to hold his tongue, a kind of golden rule in diplomacy.
The National Interest1d
U.S. Pushes Back Against South Africa’s Anti-American Diplomacy
South Africa’s recently passed land expropriation law drew President Trump’s ire in the form of a February 7 executive order ...
Daily Maverick on MSN2d
Leo Brent Bozell III — who is the right-wing conservative tapped to be the US’s top representative in SA?
A writer should be judged by his writings as well as his life story. Leo Brent Bozell III certainly has a story to tell. But ...
The Mirror US on MSN4d
Venezuelan president calls Marco Rubio an 'imbecile' as tensions escalate over Guyana
Venezuela's president, Nicolás Maduro, slammed U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday, calling the official an ...
Ronald Lamola: New SA ambassador to US will be ‘fit and proper’, regardless of race
ANC NEC member Ronald Lamola stressed that the new South African ambassador to the U. S. will be chosen based on capability, ...
Daily Maverick on MSN5d
New US envoy might be more conservative than me, says SA-born Pollak, who lost out on job
Leo Brent Bozell III, the conservative commentator and media critic President Donald Trump nominated last week as ambassador ...
Former President Thabo Mbeki ‘not surprised’ at Rasool's dismissal from the US
Former President Thabo Mbeki said he was not surprised that Ebrahim Rasool, the former ambassador to the United States of ...
eNCA on MSN6d
Mbeki criticises Rasool over his comments on Trump
While South Africa's former ambassador to the US, Ebrahim Rasool, may have been welcomed by many upon his return, not ...
Expelled South African envoy accuses Trump administration of racism
Ebrahim Rasool, who was accused of "race-baiting" by the US, speaks to the BBC in one of his first interviews since his ...