# Department of International Relations and Cooperation director-general Zane Dangor says president Cyril Ramaphosa has chosen South Africa’s new ambassador to the US. It has been just over a year since Ramaphosa’s first official ambassador to the second Donald Trump administration, Ebrahim Rasool, was abruptly declared persona non grata by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and expelled from America. This is after he insinuated in a public webinar that Trump was a white supremacist. Dangor told the Cape Town Press Club that Ramaphosa will make an announcement soon.
DIRCO director-general Dangor says Ramaphosa has selected an ambassador to the US