Breitbart , the influential United States US far-right news publication, has published Mcebisi Jonas past comments that were critical of US President Donald Trump.
Jonas is President Cyril Ramaphosas newly appointed special envoy to the US.
Relations between Pretoria and Washington are strained following the expulsion of South Africas former ambassador Ebrahim Rasool last month.
The US expelled Rasool after he said during a webinar that Trump was launching a supremacist assault on incumbency.
Breitbart was the first to report on his comments. Just hours later, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio cited its article on X and declared Rasool persona non grata .
South Africas Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country. Ebrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates Trump. We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA, Rubio wrote on X .
Breitbart publishes Mcebisi Jonas remarksNow, Breitbart has also reported on comments Jonas made in his Ahmed Kathrada Foundation Annual Lecture in November 2020 when Trump, serving his first term, was running for re-election.
Right now, the US is undergoing a watershed moment with Joe Biden the certain winner in the presidential race against the racist homophobe Donald Trump, Jonas said.
How we got to a situation where a narcissistic right-winger took charge of the world's greatest economic and military powerhouse is something that we need to ponder over. It is something that all democracies need to ponder over.
John Hayward, the author of Breitbart s article published on Monday 14 April, suggested that Ramaphosa has not made a good choice for his special envoy.