US EditionTrump's new ambassador Bozell arrives in South Africa amid strained ties
Brent Bozell will address US concerns over South Africa's International Court of Justice case against Israel and promote Trump's refugee program for white Afrikaners, amid growing trade tensions.
- On Feb 16, Leo Brent Bozell III arrived in South Africa to take up his post, the US Embassy in South Africa confirmed, saying he aims to improve fraught bilateral ties.
- The US embassy confirmed that Leo Brent Bozell III arrived in South Africa on Feb 16, amid disputes over aid cuts, tariffs, and summit boycotts, according to officials.
- Bozell will press Pretoria to drop its ICJ case and to engage on refugee policy, advancing Trump's refugee programme for white South Africans and promoting US business interests.
- South Africa hosts more than 500 US businesses and 30 000 US citizens, amplifying economic stakes as Washington’s 30-percent tariffs threaten jobs in agriculture, automobile and textile sectors.
- Bozell's background includes founding the Media Research Center and ForAmerica, and he opposed US engagement with the ANC in the 1980s through the National Conservative Political Action Committee.
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Trump's new ambassador Bozell arrives in South Africa amid strained ties
U.S. 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.
South Africa’s new US ambassador arrives in country
Washington’s ambassador to South Africa finally arrived in the country, where he will seek to improve frayed bilateral ties. The US has not had an ambassador in Pretoria since January 2025, and relations have badly deteriorated since the beginning of US President Donald Trump’s second term. Trump has repeatedly accused Pretoria of carrying out a “genocide” against South Africa’s white population, a charge experts reject. He has also imposed oner…
Appointed in March 2025 by Donald Trump, Leo Brent Bozell arrived in Pretoria on February 17, in a tense diplomatic context.
The United States imposed 30 per cent customs duties on Pretoria on a large part of its exports, the highest for a sub-Saharan African country.
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