南非外交部长罗纳德·拉莫拉公开质疑美国大使利奥·布伦特·博泽尔三世是否还应该担任这一职位，这显示比勒陀利亚与特朗普政府之间几乎已没有多少善意。
South Africa’s foreign minister Ronald Lamola has publicly questioned whether US ambassador Leo Brent Bozell III should be in the job at all, the latest sign of how little goodwill is left between Pretoria and the Trump administration.
两国关系的恶化已经酝酿了近个月；上月，美国对未点名的南非官员实施签证限制后，令人担忧的是，华盛顿可能采取更具经济破坏性的措施。
The deterioration in ties has simmered for nearly two years, raising fears that Washington may take more economically damaging steps after imposing visa restrictions on unnamed South African officials last month.
拉莫拉是在博泽尔称华盛顿“已经失去耐心”、认为对话时机已过之后，对南非《星期日时报》发表这些言论的。拉莫拉说，如果博泽尔已经厌倦了谈话，就该“离开厨房……不能让一个声称谈话时间已经结束的外交官继续当外交官。”如今，比勒陀利亚已在七个月内向博泽尔提出两次公开抗议，指责他干涉国内政治。
Lamola’s comments to South Africa’s Sunday Times came after Bozell said Washington had “run out patience” and that the time for dialogue had passed. Lamola said if Bozell is tired of talking, he ought to “get out of the kitchen … you can’t have a diplomat who says time for talking is over.”Pretoria has now lodged two public protests against Bozell in seven months, accusing him of meddling in domestic politics. The Trump administration has pressured Pretoria on race-based policies designed to undo the legacy of apartheid. Priyal Singh, an analyst at the Institute for Security Studies think tank in Johannesburg, told Semafor he expects the sparring to continue at least until the US midterms in November as falsehoods that white South Africans face persecution have found a receptive audience among President Donald Trump’s conservative base.
特朗普政府一直就旨在消除种族隔离制度遗产的种族政策向比勒陀利亚施压。约翰内斯堡安全研究所智库的分析师普里亚尔·辛格告诉Semafor，他预计至少到11月美国中期选举前，双方的争吵还会继续，因为有关南非白人遭受迫害的虚假说法在唐纳德·特朗普总统的保守派基本盘中有不少人一概接受。——蒂塞索·莫措内格
— Tiisetso Motsoeneng