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New US ambassador Leo Brent Bozell arrives in South Africa amid strained ties | SA News

US President Donald Trump’s pick for ambassador to South Africa, conservative activist and writer Leo Brent Bozell III, has arrived in the country, where he will seek to improve fraught ties between the two states.

An embassy official told Reuters on Monday that Bozell had arrived. He is expected to present his credentials to President Cyril Ramaphosa before officially taking up his post.

Relations between Washington and Pretoria have deteriorated in the past year as Trump has:

  • accused South Africa of persecuting its white minority;
  • criticised its ties with Russia and China;
  • imposed steep tariffs on its exports; and
  • cut aid.

South Africa has not had an ambassador in Washington since the…

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