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South Africa Names New US Ambassador
South Africa picked Roelf Meyer as its new US ambassador. Meyer helped negotiate the end of apartheid rule.
This happened in the 1990s. The previous ambassador, Ebrahim Rasool, was expelled in March 2025.
Rasool had criticized the Trump administration. The Trump administration has made claims of white genocide in South Africa. Meyer's appointment is intended to improve strained US-South Africa relations.
Klear Note — Apartheid was a system of racial separation in South Africa that ended in the 1990s. US-South Africa relations have been tense recently over disagreements about race and governance issues.
Key Terms 4
- ambassador
- a person sent to represent their country in another country
- apartheid
- South Africa's old system of separating people by race
- expelled
- officially forced to leave a country or position
- white genocide
- a claim that white people in South Africa are being harmed or killed