US Secretary of State Mark Rubio characterized yesterday, Friday, the South African ambassador to Washington ‘Unwanted face’, mainly accusing him of “hating” US President Donald Trump.

Embrahim Rasul “feeds racial tensions, hates the US and hates President Donald Trump, Rubio said in a post on social media, adding that the South African diplomat is no longer” welcome “.

South Africa’s presidency “has been aware of the sad departure of the South African ambassador to the United States of America, Mr. Emrahim Rasul,” she reacted in a statement, however, stating “determined to build a reciprocal relationship”.

This decision of Washington is part of a framework for sharpening relations between the US and South Africa.

Embrahim Rasul, a South African ambassador to Washington since January 2025, has held this position in the past.

Ever since he returned to the White House in the same month, Donald Trump has accused Pretoria of “unjustly” treating the offspring of European settlers, even creating a US asylum procedure for the “Bowers) refugees.

In addition to stopping any aid to South Africa, Trump also decided that the US would encourage “re -install”, “who left to escape racial discrimination encouraged by the government,” according to him.

His adviser, billionaire Ilon Musk, who comes from South Africa, has also accused the Pretoria government of discrimination to the country’s white populations.

Another reason for tension between Pretoria and Washington is the appeal of a “genocide” made by South Africa against Israel in 2023 before the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

In February, South African President Siril Ramafaza said he wanted to go to the US, acknowledging that “everything seems to have been derailed” between him and Donald Trump from a first telephone conversation that the two presidents had when he returned to the US.