US Expels South African Ambassador To The State, Says S'Africa Ambassador 'No Longer Welcome' The US is expelling South Africa's ambassador to Washington, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio declaring he is "no longer welcome in our great country".
In a post on X, Rubio implicated Ebrahim Rasool of hating America and President Donald Trump and described him as a "race-baiting politician".
The office for South Africa's president on Saturday summoned the decision "regrettable", insert that the country abide committed to building a mutually beneficial relative position with America.
The unparalleled move by the US marks the latest development in rising tensions between the two countries.
In his post on Friday, Rubio linked to an article from the right-wing outlet Breitbart that quoted a few of Rasool's recent remarks made during an online lecture about the Trump administration.
"What Donald Trump is launching is an upheaval on incumbency, those who are in power, by mobilising a supremacism against the incumbency, at home… and abroad," Rasool disclosed at the juncture.
He superposed that the Maga movement was a response "to very clear data that shows great demographic shifts in the USA in which the voting electorate… is projected to become 48 percent white".
In response, Rubio summoned Rasool "PERSONA NON GRATA," referencing the Latin phrase for "unwelcome person".
The post from Rubio came as he defunct Canada from a meeting with alien ministers.
Ties between the US and South Africa have been deteriorating since Trump took office.
The US president signed an executive order concluding month that freezes assistance to South Africa. The order references "egregious actions" by South Africa and cites "unjust racial discrimination" against white Afrikaners - those who ran low from Dutch settlers.
The South African government has repeatedly declined this.
The order furthermore references a new law, the Expropriation Act, that the order claims targets Afrikaners by allowing the government to take away private land.
"As long as South Africa remains to encourage bad actors on the world stage and allows violent clashes on innocent disfavored minority farmers, the United States will stop aid and assistance to the country," according to a statement from the White House.
The government in South Africa declines its law is connected to race, the Associated Press said.
A fact sheet from the White House states the country "blatantly discriminates against ethnic minority descendants of settler groups".
While lower-ranking diplomats are sometimes expelled, it's highly unusual in the US for it to occur to a more senior official like an alien ambassador, the Associated Press disclosed, noting neither the US nor Russia took such actions against one another even in the crowd of tensions during the Cold War.
Rasool previously served as the country's ambassador to the US from 2010 to 2015 before being tapped again for the post in 2025.
He was born and grew up in Cape Town. When he was nine, he and his family were forcibly took away from an apartment that was publicised only for white people. As he grew older, he became more interested in politics and revealed the eviction was a significant moment in his upbringing that guided his future.
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Published 3/15/2025