By Johnathan Paoli
Newly appointed ambassador to the United States, Roelf Meyer, will be sent to Washington as soon as diplomatic processing is complete, Presidency spokesperson Vincent Magwenya told Inside Politics.
Asked when Meyer would be deployed, Magwenya said “immediately”, and then added: “[He will be deployed] as soon as possible once all administrative protocols in Washington have been completed.”
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Meyer will become South Africa’s first ambassador to the United States since former ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was declared persona non grata in March 2025.
Rasool was expelled after saying Trump was mobilising a “supremacist instinct” and projecting “white victimhood” as a “dog whistle”.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the expulsion at the time, saying and Rasool was “no longer welcome” in America.
Meyer is one of the best-known political negotiators of South Africa’s democratic transition. He served as the National
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