By Des Erasmus
South Africa is among the top global priorities for US President Donald Trump on trade and investment, with Washington seeing “beautiful music” in a deeper economic partnership if current disputes can be resolved, new American ambassador Brent Bozell III has said.
Speaking at the BizNews annual investment conference in Hermanus, near Cape Town, this week, Bozell said Trump had personally pressed him to take up the post in Pretoria and had “zeroed in on South Africa as a global partner”, driven above all by trade.
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When speaking with Trump about his ambassadorial position, Bozell said, “[H]e laid out the concerns he had, and I’m mentioning that there’s a refugee issue, the expropriation issue, all these things.
“But he kept going to trade, trade, trade, trade. To understand this … is to understand that
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