00:00The South African government has summoned the United States Ambassador Leo Brent Bozile to explain his remarks when he criticised
00:08Johannesburg over his diplomatic ties with Iran and his affirmative action laws that advance opportunities for black people ahead of
00:16other races.
00:17We have called in the Ambassador of the United States Ambassador Bozile to explain his undiplomatic remarks and in his
00:26engagements and visits to various sites in South Africa including the Apartheid Museum, District 6 and other historical places.
00:39In the engagements he acknowledges that given our history, South Africa needs redress and is willing to work with us
00:47constructively in this regard.
00:50This comes at a time when relations between the two countries have soured since President Trump took office.
00:56Bozile had urged Pretoria to change some of his affirmative action laws that were designed to redress the inequalities of
01:03South Africa's decades of racial segregation and apartheid.
01:07Broad-based black economic empowerment is not reverse racism as regrettably insuniated by the Ambassador.
01:15It is a fundamental instrument designed to address the structural imbalances of South Africa's unique history.
01:22It is a constitutional imperative that the South African government can and will never abandon.
01:28The diplomatic rift has continued between the two countries over foreign policy that the Trump administration describes as anti-American
01:35and domestic policies it calls anti-white.
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