The ambassadors recorded the message four days after US President Donald Trump signed a decree suspending all donor funding to South Africa as a sanction for what he termed racial oppression and support for “reinvigorating relations with Iran to develop military, and nuclear arrangements”.

U.S. President Donald Trump has followed through on his promise to punish South Africa by signing an executive order stopping all aid and assistance to the country over what he called a human rights violation against a white minority group.