Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool’s very objective and tactful analysis of the landscape in which he was stationed, to an intellectual platform, is being exploited to intensify aggression against South Africa.
The declaration of Rasool as “persona non grata” should be located within a series of dedicated regime change efforts by the US in South Africa. Regime change refers to the removal of a democratically-elected, sitting government by undemocratic means.
The US had always had a strategic interest in South Africa because of its location and critical minerals, hence, before 1994, the US government supported the apartheid regime.
However, following South Africa’s transition to democracy, the US sought to foster a more positive and co-operative relationship with the new government. Its tactic for the first three decades of democracy had been to…
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