Expelled South African ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, says he has no ambition to be redeployed

Expelled South African ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, says he has no ambition to be redeployed.

Rasool arrived in Cape Town on Sunday morning after being declared persona non grata by the Donald Trump administration. Rasool was quoted as saying Trump was leading a ‘white supremacist movement.’

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U.S Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, lambasted Rasool for comments made on a webinar.  He slammed Rasool as a 'race-baiting politician' who is no longer welcome in the country.

The now-former ambassador addressed media outside the Cape Town International Airport on Sunday saying he has no regrets about returning to South Africa following his expulsion from the United States.

‘’My remarks was about a forum talking about South Africa intellectual political leaders and others; to alert them to a change in the U.S, that the old way is not going to work, and unless we change our ways to the U.S, that it is a different U.S, and therefore our language must change. Not only to transactionality, but also a language that can penetrate a group that can clearly identify a fringe white community in South Africa as their constituency surrounded by a white diaspora in the White House. That is what we are up against. Nothing I will say there and would not say elsewhere. I stand by my analysis, because we were analysing a political phenomenon and not a personality, not a nation and not even a government, so I stand by that.’’

Rasool says he will hand over a report to the President about his time in the U.S.

‘’We have tried to engage and met with executive orders to cut aid – PEPFAR – and now we sit with the idea that millions could be infected with HIV/AIDS. The research for the vaccine may not be the one that could not be completed. This is why we must mend our relationship or sit out the next four years. This is what we have been trying to do and wish that President Cyril Ramaphosa must be able to find someone and amend that relationship without sacrificing our values.’’

 

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