{"id":47242,"date":"2026-10-05T11:27:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T09:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47242"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:27:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T09:27:43","slug":"bozells-latest-demarche-further-deepens-sa-us-tensions-expert","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/bozells-latest-demarche-further-deepens-sa-us-tensions-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Bozell\u2019s latest d\u00e9marche further deepens SA, US tensions: Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">International relations expert Kingsley Makhubela says the demarche of United States (US) Ambassador to South Africa (SA), Leo Brent Bozell III, for the third time in nine months, further deepens tensions between SA and the US.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Parliament\u2019s Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Co-operation says it will soon invite the department to explain the circumstances that led to the demarche.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Makhubela says, \u201cThe message that\u2019s coming out quite clearly is that there\u2019s an escalation in terms of the tension between the two countries and it appears that on this side, the American ambassador is failing in terms of restarting relations, resetting the relations between the two countries.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div>\u201cSo he\u2019s actually failing in his diplomatic mission because the basic function of an ambassador is to build relations between the two countries. So based on that you can see he\u2019s failing,\u201d adds Makhubela.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21337,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-47242","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Parliament\u2019s Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Co-operation says it will soon invite the department to explain the circumstances that led to the demarche.","published_date":"","news_description":"Parliament\u2019s Portfolio Committee on International Relations and Co-operation says it will soon invite the department to explain the circumstances that led to the demarche.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47243,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47242\/revisions\/47243"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}