US ambassador to SA on thin ice as pressure mounts
US ambassador to South Africa Leo Brent Bozell III is on thin ice, with mounting pressure on Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola to act decisively.
Such a move would mark a dramatic shift in Pretoria’s relations with Washington, echoing the Trump administration’s dismissal of South Africa’s former ambassador to the US, Ibrahim Rasool, in March last year.
He described the ambassador as Trump’s “ears and eyes” in South Africa, replicating the president’s views and undermining Pretoria’s independence.
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