南非再次召见美国大使利奥·布伦特·博泽尔三世，加深了与华盛顿的外交裂痕，就在同一周，该国最大的公司之一在美国的一起恐怖主义诉讼中处于劣势。
South Africa summoned US ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III again, deepening a diplomatic rift with Washington in the same week that one of the country’s biggest companies lost ground in a US terrorism lawsuit.
博泽尔——因他在三月关于“杀死布尔人”口号的言论而首次被召见——最近更多地抨击比勒陀利亚对美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在土地、种族政策、农场谋杀案和仇恨言论方面要求的回应。
Bozell — first summoned in March over his remarks on the “Kill the Boer” chant — has more recently been attacking Pretoria’s response to US President Donald Trump’s demands on land, race policy, farm murders, and hate speech.
南非多次拒绝这些要求，视其为干涉内政，并辩称其基于种族的政策是宪法赋予的补救措施，在一个黑人多数因种族隔离政策而陷入赤贫的国家。
South Africa has repeatedly rejected the demands as interference in domestic affairs, arguing its race-based policies are constitutional redress in a country where the Black majority was left destitute by apartheid policies.
这场冲突恰逢总部位于约翰内斯堡的MTN集团——非洲最大的电信公司——未能在纽约的一起诉讼中跨越关键障碍，该诉讼由在伊拉克和阿富汗遇害或受伤的美国公民家属提起。
The clash coincides with Johannesburg-based MTN Group, Africa’s largest telecoms company, failing to clear a key hurdle in a New York lawsuit brought by families of US citizens killed or injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.
他们指控MTN通过支付保护费协助塔利班，并在该伊斯兰组织的要求下关闭其基站，还通过其在Irancell的股份协助伊朗革命卫队在伊拉克的行动。— Tiisetso Motsoeneng
They allege MTN aided the Taliban through protection payments and switched off its towers at the request of the Islamist group, and assisted Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in Iraq through its stake in Irancell. — Tiisetso Motsoeneng