Sec. of State Rubio kicks S. African ambassador out of US: 'persona non grata'

Secretary of State Marco Rubio just dropped a diplomatic hammer on South Africa’s ambassador to the U.S., Embrahim Rasool, telling him to pack his bags and get lost. Rubio’s Friday smackdown branded Rasool a “race-baiting” clown who despises America and loathes President Donald Trump. 

Why? Because Rasool had the audacity of dope to call Trump the grand wizard of a global White supremacist parade.

This all kicked off Thursday when Rasool strutted up to the mic at Johannesburg’s Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (MISTRA). He was flapping his gums about Trump’s beef with South Africa’s land-grab law and its anti-Israel vibe. According to Rasool, Trump’s Make America Great Again movement is some kind of KKK-lite reaction to the U.S. turning less pale. 

“What Donald Trump is launching is an assault on incumbency, those who are in power, by mobilizing a supremacism against the incumbency, at home, and, I think I’ve illustrated, abroad as well,” he yapped. “So in terms of that, the supremacist assault on incumbency, we see it in the domestic politics of the USA, the MAGA movement, the Make America Great Again movement, as a response not simply to a supremacist instinct, but to very clear data that shows great demographic shifts in the USA in which the voting electorate in the USA is projected to become 48% white.” Oh, he’s got charts, folks—must be legit.

Rubio wasn’t having it. He took to X and torched Rasool: 

“South Africa’s Ambassador to the United States is no longer welcome in our great country,” he fired off. “Emrahim Rasool is a race-baiting politician who hates America and hates @POTUS. We have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA.” 

Translation: Don’t let the door hit you on the way out.

Trump’s been on South Africa’s case for a while, especially over their Expropriation Act 13 of 2024—a law that lets the government snatch land without paying a dime. 

Back in February, Trump hit them with an executive order that’s still got Pretoria crying. “In shocking disregard of its citizens’ rights, the Republic of South Africa recently enacted Expropriation Act 13 of 2024, to enable the government of South Africa to seize ethnic minority Afrikaners’ agricultural property without compensation,” the order thunders. 

Trump’s response? No more U.S. aid, and a green light to help Afrikaner refugees fleeing what he calls “government-sponsored race-based discrimination.” He’s not done—South Africa’s cozying up to Iran and slapping Israel with genocide accusations at the International Court of Justice got tacked onto the rap sheet too. 

“The United States cannot support the government of South Africa’s commission of rights violations in its country or its undermining United States foreign policy, which poses national security threats to our Nation, our allies, our African partners, and our interests,” the order snaps.

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South Africa’s government, meanwhile, is spinning a different yarn. They say Whites—Afrikaners and beyond—still clutch about 70% of the land, and their expropriation gig is just for “public purposes,” like building a school. They even promise “fair and equitable compensation” if they take your dirt. 

Sure, and I’ve got a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.

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Doctor faces unprofessional conduct charges for his honesty

South Africa -- Jacque de Vos, 32, a pro-life physician, told his patient that an abortion kills a human being. Had he said that it merely destroys a clump of cells much like cancer cells, he would have been lauded by the pro-abortion heartless.

The doctor was completing his internship more than two years ago when he was charged with alleged medical misconduct by the Health Professions Council of South Africa.

The Herald Live said that de Vos's hearing in front of the council was postponed this week and rescheduled for Oct. 28, according to IOL News.

“The hearing was first scheduled for August 2018. Since the beginning of 2018 we have been asking for the information that we are entitled to by law,” said Martus de Wet, De Vos’s attorney who added that the long process has been "very frustrating," and that de Vos, who is pro-life, is "being punished but denied the basis for it and an opportunity to answer."

The doctor has not been able to practice for over two years and "has severe health challenges," de Wet said.

No less than 20,000 people have signed a petition supporting de Vos and urging the council to drop all charges against him, IOL News reported.

“De Vos has the right to freedom of conscience and religious belief and should not be coerced to sign up to the culture of death mentality that ludicrously and ignorantly claims that human life does not begin at conception,” the petition reads.

During the hearing, de Vos plans to defend his position that human life begins at conception with expert witnesses and scientific evidence, according to the reports.

If it isn't life that begins at conception, then what is it?

According to the bs charges, de Vos allegedly “infringed” on the patient’s “autonomy with his anti-abortion utterances.” During his medical internship at 2 Military Hospital in Wynberg, he allegedly told a pregnant woman that her “fetus was a human being” and an abortion kills an unborn human, Sowetan Live reported earlier this summer.

If a fetus isn't a human being, what is it? Look at any sonogram and decide if even at a few weeks whether you're looking at a human being or a clump of cells. [If you choose the latter, you should consider making friends with the woman from the far-right group that told AOC at her town hall meeting that her Green New Deal didn't go far enough and we all should start eating babies to save the planet.]

2-week fetus

The "utterances," a term used to delegitimize the facts, are not simply de Vos's opinion--they are proven, scientific facts that can now be found in biology and medical textbooks, agreed to by medical experts and even abortionists, that human life begins at conception.

Abortion kills human beings, not a clump of cells.

I suspect that in the not so very distant future, we are going to look back at this period in our history and see ourselves as immoral contributors to sick societal norms.

Sadly, de Vos lost his job over this and was banned from practicing medicine because he refused to deny abortion kills babies. And he was merely one week away from completing his medical degree.


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