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Trump was bad for Africa’s economic prospects says SA’s former ambassador to the US News24 Wire CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA - DECEMBER 15: Former South African Ambassador to United States Ebrahim Rasool addresses the Cape Town Press Club on December 15, 2020 in Cape Town, South Africa. It is reported that Rassol deliberated on the US Elections, the transition from Trump to Biden and its implications for South Africa. (Photo by Gallo Images/Brenton Geach) ...

With President Donald Trump leading the country, Rasool said the Covid-19 pandemic, a recession and racial tensions, while not confined to the US, brought several problems to the world's most powerful nation. "It has awakened supremacists globally and it has challenged non-racialism all around the world. You could not have presided over so many deaths and millions of infections and not have [an] answer for it. You could not have presided over the conflagration on the issue of race and not answer for it," he added. Rasool said the US, given its consequential role globally, could not afford any...

I think that the inequality, such as to today and the inequality is racially coded and color coded. and yet, the only reason why south africa is able, with great stability and a great belief in democracy and human rights, we are able to navigate this difficult waters of material deprivation, is because nelson man della has been able to teach us patience, to teach us to give the other the benefit of the doubt. and he has been able to reconcile us in a way that has given us the space to overcome those problems systemically as we go forward. and so i want to really say that that legacy of nelson ...

Those problems systemically as we go forward. and so i want to really say that that legacy of nelson mandela, the patience and the perseverance and not to descend into anarchy and into instability, i think, persists to this day. >> ebrahim rasool, thank you so much for joining us on this sad night. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back. ♪