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Mampara of the week: Leo Brent Bozell

Bozo ambassador to the right wing

US ambassodor Leo Brent Bozell at the US Embassy in Pretoria. Picture: Freddy Mavunda/Business Day

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It is said a good ambassador knows that diplomacy is the “art of telling people to go to hell in such a way that they ask for directions”. But this Mampara seems not interested in being a good envoy for his country in South Africa.

Instead he risks being mistaken for a mascot, paraded around the country by individuals and groups hellbent on fanning racial divisions through falsehoods. That’s no job for an ambassador, especially one from a country as important and respected as the US.

For his country’s — and South Africa’s — sake, Leo Brent Bozell should go jump.



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