South Africa’s New Special Envoy to U.S. Called Trump ‘Racist Homophobe’
South Africa’s new special envoy to the U.S. will retain his role as chairman of the board of a telecom firm that co-owns Iran’s biggest cellular operator with the Islamist country’s government, and he has called President Trump a “racist homophobe,” potentially teeing up another diplomatic clash between the Trump administration and Pretoria.
Mcebisi Jonas, a former deputy finance minister whom South African president Cyril Ramaphosa named to the new role on Monday, has publicly criticized President Trump in strident terms. Speaking on a webinar on November 7, 2020, days after the U.S. presidential election that year, he said:
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