US President Donald Trump has identified the conservative media critic and pro-Israel commentator Leo Brent Bozel III as Ambassador to South Africa, against the backdrop of deteriorating diplomatic ties between the two countries.
The nomination of G -n -Bsel follows the expulsion of Washington by South Africa Ambassador, Ebrahim Rasol, as remarks considered critical to Trump.
The Trump administration has condemned South Africa's judicial action against Israel in the International Court of Justice in Gaza War and accused its government of discrimination against white South Africans to seize their land.
The nomination must still be confirmed by the US Senate.
D -n -Bosel, 69, was previously nominated to lead the US Global Media Agency -an already closed umbrella organization that watched the voice of America and Radio Free Europe -but the offer was later withdrawn.
Earlier in his career, he founded the Center for Media Research – which has a stated mission to identify liberal bias – and the Parents' Television Council, among other conservative groups.
His son Leo was among those who stormed the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. He was sentenced last year and sentenced to nearly four years in prison.
Relations between the US and South Africa have sharply worsened at Trump.
The United States expelled South Africa's ambassador earlier in March, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio describing him as a “race for a race.”
In Publication X, which announces that Rasool is “no longer welcome”, Rubio contacted an article from the right output Breitbart, which quotes Rasool's comments, accusing Trump of trying to “design the white victim as a dog whistle.”
While lower-standing diplomats are sometimes expelled, in the US it is extremely unusual to happen to a higher employee.
In February, Trump also signed an enforcement order to freeze US South Africa, citing an “unfair racial discrimination” against white African.
The order refers to a new law, the alienation law that allows the government to take away private land.
White South Africans, including African, make up 7.2% of the population, but own 72% of the agricultural land, according to the Government Audit of Earth in 2018.
The South Africa government, led by the African National Congress (ANC) in a coalition of 10 parties, said earlier that Trump's actions were based on a “campaign for misinformation and propaganda aimed at misrepresenting our great nation”.