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COM3705 Assignment 3 PORTFOLIO (COMPLETE ANSWERS) Semester 1 2025 – DUE 23 May 2025; 100% correct solutions and explanations. QUESTION 1: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (Dzuni Mtimbani) (45) READ THE BELOW ARTICLE BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE QUESTIONS South Africa committed to US ties after βregrettableοΏ½οΏ½οΏ½ expulsion of envoy South Africa has said the decision of the United States to expel Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool is βregrettableβ, but the country βremains committed to building a mutually beneficial relationshipβ with Washington. South Africaβs presidency urged βall relevant and impacted stakeholders to maintain the established diplomatic decorum in their engagement with the matterβ in a statement issued on Saturday morning, just hours after US State Secretary Marco Rubio called Rasool a βrace-baiting politicianβ who hates the US and President Donald Trump. Rubio wrote on X that Rasool was βno longer welcome in our great countryβ, adding: βWe have nothing to discuss with him and so he is considered PERSONA NON GRATA.β Rubio linked his remarks to an article by the right-wing media outlet Breitbart, wherein Rasool is quoted as saying Trump mobilised a βsupremacist instinctβ and βwhite victimhoodβ as a βdog whistleβ during the 2024 elections. But South African political analyst Sandile Swana told Al Jazeera that the βcore of the disputeβ was Pretoriaβs decision to form a genocide case at the International Court of Justice against Israel, a close US ally, over its war on Gaza. In February, Rasool, an anti-apartheid campaigner, told the Zeteo news site that what South Africans experienced during apartheid rule βis on steroids in Palestineβ. Moreover, Swana explained that in the fight against apartheid, the US βsupported the apartheid regimeβ.β[So] Rasool continues to point out the behaviour of the United States, even now is to support apartheid and genocide,β he added. Land policy Still, the decision by Washington to expel the South African ambassador comes at a time of heightened tensions between the two countries, since Trump cut financial aid to South Africa after citing his disapproval of its land policy that he alleged allows land to be seized from white farmers. Last week, Trump pushed this further and said South Africaβs farmers were welcome to settle in the US, repeating that the South African government was βconfiscatingβ land from white people. South African-born tech billionaire Elon Musk, a close Trump ally, has also accused the country of having βopenly racist ownership lawsβ. However, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has defended the policy, saying the government was not confiscating land but aiming to level racial disparities in land ownership in the Black-majority nation. Instructions In light of the above article, and the prescribed readings (including your Study Guide), write an essay and it must include the following points: 1.1 Introduction (it must introduce all the key points of the essay) (3) 1.2 Using
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