Mcebisi Jonas blocked from US
MVEBISI Jonas’s previous comments that US president Donald Trump was “a racist, homophobic and a narcissistic right-winger” blocked his inclusion from the South African delegation that visited the White House’s Oval Office on Wednesday.
meeting due to past comments on Trump
The comments resurfaced shortly after Ramaphosa announced Jonas’s appointment last month.
Last month, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the former deputy finance minister Mcebisi Jonas as his special envoy to the United States, in an effort to try to rebuild a relationship that has soured badly under President Donald Trump.
Since Trump’s return to the White House in January the U.S. has expelled South Africa’s ambassador and cut financial aid, citing disapproval of its approach to land reform and its genocide case against Washington’s ally Israel at the World Court.
False story. He was not blocked, he was not just among the delegation. He has already started engaging congressmen and senators. That was not his space to be.