The U.S. ambassador to South Africa has hit out at the country’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, telling Fox News Digital, "You've got a president of South Africa who refuses to condemn an incitement to kill."
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who → hit → incitement
Ambassador L. Brent Bozell III was responding strongly, in an exclusive interview with Fox News Digital, to being summoned this past week to South Africa’s foreign ministry and criticized for ‘undiplomatic conduct."
This is the third time the ambassador has received a démarche — a diplomatic rebuke — from Pretoria in the nine months since he arrived here.
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he → respond → months
The ambassador has been slammed by South Africa for relaying President Trump’s condemnation of South African policies and statements.
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ambassador → slam → policies
He has repeatedly pushed for issues brought up by President Trump in a testy confrontation in the Oval Office with South Africa’s President Ramaphosa 16 months ago to be addressed.
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issues → push → Ramaphosa
Among other points, these include alleged race-based discrimination, allegations of murder and torture of farmers, plans for uncompensated land seizures and the incitement of violence against minority groups.
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these → include → groups
The ambassador said three of the five specific ‘asks’ the Trump administration wants have been ignored by South Africa.
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administration → say → Africa
High up the list of ‘asks’ is President Trump’s demand that President Ramaphosa stops people in South Africa from shouting "Kill the Boer!
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Ramaphosa → stop → Boer
A Boer is a white man, according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
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It defines it as "a South African of Dutch or Huguenot descent".
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Ramaphosa has claimed he can’t stop people chanting this slogan because it’s been cleared for use by the country’s supreme court.
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it → claim → court
Bozell told Fox News Digital, "You've got a president of South Africa who refuses to condemn an incitement to kill."
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who → tell → incitement
He added, "You've got a government that has said it's not going to do any more for the Afrikaner rural community, and it's got a government that's saying no, your mining has to go through race-based programs.
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mining → add → programs
We're not going to allow your investments to go the way everyone else has been allowed to go".
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everyone → go → ?
"Those were three strikes and you're out as far as we were concerned," Bozell said.
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Ask 100% of the world if "kill the farmer!, kill the Boer" isn’t hate speech," he continued.
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he → ask → Boer
"If that isn't hate speech, I don't know what hate speech is: inciting people to commit murder.
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So the answer we've gotten is, well, the court said it isn't.
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it → get → ?
To which our response is look, in the United States, the president can disagree with the court and does about every five minutes because that's what you do in a democracy when you disagree with something
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Bozell added, "So, to say, well, you can't do it because the court said it's not, you know, that's poppycock.
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If President Ramaphosa, if he wants to, he can do it.
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The ambassador pushed hard on the point, saying "How hard is it to say this chant, where some, where people do it, 50,000 people in the stadium jump up and down, pantomiming guns, shooting people, how hard is it to say, stop it?
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it → push → it
This is awful that anybody would be inciting people to kill."
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anybody → incite → people
South Africa, analysts say, is drawing ever closer to Iran, Russia, China even Cuba.
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analysts → say → Iran
The African National Congress, the ANC, the party which rules the country in the so-called ‘government of national unity’, has hosted the terror group Hamas.
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President Trump met with Bozell in Washington again recently, with the ambassador telling Fox News Digital the president’s thinking "perhaps most of all, he's concerned about how South Africa has been systematically leaving the non-alignment space and moving closer and closer to our adversaries."
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Africa → meet → adversaries
Referring to South Africa, the ambassador added, "There are people who are living in the glory days of the Soviet Union, and they want to go back to the good old days of communism.
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they → refer → communism
Why are they still working with Cuba?"
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they → work → Cuba
Digging deeper, Bozell asked, "Why are they working with Iran and Hamas terror organizations?
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What's Russia doing for them?
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Russia → do → them
What's China doing for them?
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China → do → them
This is bad news when they're going in that direction.
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they → go → direction
What we're saying is simply do what you've always done.
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We'll live with that."
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The ambassador stressed that the U.S. wants to make dynamic business with South Africa on mining, particularly on critical or rare earth minerals.
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U.S. → stress → minerals
He stated, "We're not going to do what the Chinese do.
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Chinese → state → what
They come in, they take the ore, they take it to China, they benefit [from] it and they make a pile of money.
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they → come → money
We're saying to South Africa, we'll come in, we'll do the mining, we'll do it right there in South Africa."
He continued,"South Africa gets the money, not the Chinese.
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Africa → say → Chinese
We bring in the technology that they could never have.
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We've created hundreds of thousands of jobs.
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We're saying we could create more and more and more at a time when they desperately need it,
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