South Africa‘s ambassador to the U.S., Ebrahim Rasool, has until Friday to leave the country. Rasool is still in the United States, according to the South African Foreign Ministry, even after Secretary of State Marco Rubio expelled him and gave him “persona non grata” status.

South Africa doubled down simultaneously by signing a declaration of the recently formed Hague Group a recently formed alliance of countries to enforce punitive measures against Israel. A delegation of Afriforum,

Remarks by South Africa's ambassador to the United States about President Donald Trump were "unacceptable," a State Department spokesperson told reporters on Monday after Washington last week made the decision to expel the envoy.