US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the South African ambassador is no longer welcome in the US, BTA reported.
"We have nothing more to discuss with him, so he is PERSONA NON GRATE (Rubio's capital letters - ed.)", wrote the head of US diplomacy in Aix, without giving a reason.
The US State Department also did not provide further details. It is also unclear whether the ambassador, whose name is Ebrahim Rasool and whom Rubio accuses in his post of being a "racist politician who hates America and the President of the United States", is currently on American soil.
Rubio made the announcement from his plane on his way back from a meeting of G-7 foreign ministers in Quebec, Canada.
On March 7, President Donald Trump announced that the US federal government was completely cutting off funding to the black-dominated government of the Republic of South Africa (South Africa), the Associated Press notes.
"To go even further, any farmer (with family!) from South Africa who wants to flee this country for security reasons will be invited to the United States of America with a fast-track procedure for obtaining citizenship," Trump wrote in a post on his social network "Truth" Social".
The US president specified that this process would begin immediately.
Trump's decree states that a law was passed against Afrikaners in South Africa, who are mainly descendants of Dutch settlers, allowing their land to be taken away.
On February 6, his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa, said that his country would not allow itself to be "bullied" after a few days earlier Trump announced that he would suspend US funding for the African country over its land reform law, which some say deliberately harms white South African farmers.
Trump pointed out that "South Africa is confiscating land and treating certain groups of the population VERY BADLY", without citing specific evidence. His statement was related to a new land law that aims to address some racial disparities in land ownership.
Ramaposa did not mention the US president by name, but in his annual State of the Nation address, he said that global tensions were increasing and warned of a dangerous rise in protectionism and nationalism around the world.
Before Trump's statement, South Africa was also criticized by Rubio, who boycotted the G20 summit in Johannesburg because, in his words, "South Africa does a lot of bad things".
The South African government denies that the new law was adopted for racist reasons.
There was no comment from the South African Embassy in Washington so far.
US President Donald Trump has sharply attacked major American media outlets that have been critical of his activities. He did this in a speech at the Justice Department in Washington, DPA and Agence France-Presse reported, quoted by BTA.
Televisions like CNN and MSNBC, "which literally 97.6% of the time write only bad things about me, are political extensions of the Democratic Party and in my opinion they are really corrupt and they are illegal. What they do is illegal", the Republican said.
He called MSNBC MSDNC, referring to the Democratic National Committee, whose abbreviation in English is DNC (Democratic National Committee). The Republican said in his speech that the television channel is part of the Democratic Party, which he is not.
Trump criticized television and newspapers for being nothing more than highly paid political entities, and added that their critical coverage of his activities was coordinated between them. He pointed out that this should be illegal because it creates the prerequisites for influencing judges.
For years, Trump has defined traditional media as enemies of the people, accusing journalists of spreading lies and threatening to revoke the licenses of unpopular television stations.
After returning to power, he stopped access to the White House and the presidential plane for reporters from the Associated Press agency. The reason for the measure was the AP's refusal to use the name "American Gulf", which Trump introduced by decree as an official replacement for the name Gulf of Mexico.
The White House also broke with a decades-old tradition of the independent journalistic association of accredited White House correspondents determining the composition of the correspondents accompanying the president.
At the same time, since taking office, Trump has granted access to the White House to a number of right-wing media outlets, influencers, bloggers and podcasters. The White House calls this "new media".