Donald Trump has nominated L. Brent Bozell III–who defended the white supremacist apartheid system–to be U.S. envoy to South Africa, whose people overthrew apartheid in 1994. Meanwhile, the apartheid nepo baby Elon Musk–whose daddy owned an emerald mine in Northern Rhodesia (now independent Zambia)—posted on X, “The legacy media never mentions white genocide in South Africa.”
There is no genocide of any kind in South Africa right now. White landowners, who comprise 7% of South Africa’s population, still own 70% of the land.
South Africa has introduced provisions allowing for the expropriation of land without compensation. The Expropriation Act of 2025 was signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Jan. 23. To Elon Musk, South Africa’s land reforms are what he means by “white genocide.”
Trump is offering refuge to white farmland owners, mostly descendants of the Afrikaner settlers who stole the land and exploited African workers for generations, while here in the U.S., Trump is jailing immigrant farm workers and activists likeMahmoud Khalil.
These “persecuted” white landowners include Matthew Benson, who shot Tebogo Ndlovu in 2017 for allegedly stealing oranges and then threw him to crocodiles.
Bozell’s nomination came a week after South Africa’s ambassador to the United States, Ebrahim Rasool, was kicked out of the U.S. The December 12th Movement held a demonstration at the U.S mission to the United Nations on March 21–the 65th anniversary of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre–to protest Rasool’s expulsion.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool a “race-baiting politician who hates America.”
Brent Bozell is no diplomat, but he’s certainly a race-baiter. He told Fox News in 2011 that President Barack Obama “looked like a skinny, ghetto crackhead.”
Rasool, the representative of 60 million Africans, was declared “persona non grata” and given 72 hours to “get out of Dodge.” That’s the treatment given to a diplomat whose country has had war declared upon it.
Trump’s racist war
Donald Trump has waged war against Black people for decades. Trump and his daddy, Fred Trump–who was arrested while participating in a 1927 Ku Klux Klan riot in Queens, New York–refused to rent to Black families.
Trump took out full-page newspaper ads in 1989 demanding the return of the death penalty in New York. This was after five Black and Latinx youth were arrested and framed for committing a near-deadly assault in Central Park.
The Exonerated Five were later given $41 million in compensation for years of being unjustly incarcerated. One of the Five, Yusef Salaam, has been elected to the New York City Council. Yet Trump refuses to apologize.
During last year’s election, Trump and his sidekick J.D. Vance claimed Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were eating their neighbors’ cats and dogs; so bogus that even the Republican governor of Ohio denounced this claim.
Trump is now trying to take over the National Museum of African American History and Culture and censor its exhibits.
Trump has cut off medicines to combat HIV in Africa, threatening the lives of people throughout Africa.
Down with apartheid!
Trump kicked Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool out of the United States, but it wasn’t the first time Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool was expelled. When he was nine years old, Rasool and his family were evicted from their Cape Town home by the apartheid authorities.
The future ambassador joined the African National Congress, which, together with the South African unions and the South African Communist Party, overthrew the apartheid regime. People around the world demanded freedom for ANC leader Nelson Mandela, who was jailed for 27 years. He was arrested and imprisoned in 1962 in an apartheid secret police operation assisted by the CIA.
A massive anti-apartheid movement swept the United States and the world in the 1980s. The same campuses where people are today demanding an end to the U.S. / Zionist genocide in Gaza were the sites of protests against the apartheid fascist regime.
Brent Bozell III wasn’t one of these anti-apartheid protesters. As president of the National Conservative Political Action Committee, he declared his organization was “proud to become a member of the Coalition Against ANC Terrorism.”
This coalition of bigots tried unsuccessfully to prevent a 1987 meeting between Secretary of State George Shultz and ANC president Oliver Tambo. Bozell never said anything about the real terrorism of the apartheid army and police, who murdered 700 African youth in the 1976 Soweto massacre.
Racism runs in Bozell’s family. His father, L. Brent Bozell, Jr., was a co-founder of the reactionary National Review magazine along with William F. Buckley, Jr. In a 1985 newspaper column, Buckley wrote that Nelson Mandela should remain in jail.
Bozell’s son, L. Brent Bozell IV, was one of the fascists arrested for storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an effort to overturn the 2024 election.
South Africa is also a target of Trump because the country courageously brought charges of genocide against Benjamin Netanyahu and other Zionist leaders before the International Criminal Court.
Trump and his fellow billionaires want to turn back the clock in Africa and around the world. Trump’s nomination of the bigot Bozell is an insult to working and oppressed people everywhere.
U.S. hands off Africa!