Trump Nominates Rightwing Media Critic As Ambassador To Sa

US President Donald Trump has nominated Brent Bozell III as Washingtons new ambassador to South Africa amid a historic diplomatic deep freeze between the two countries.

The nomination is one of many for several diplomatic postings around the world, published on the website of the US Congress.

It followed 10 days after Washington expelled South Africas ambassador Ebrahim Rasool after he told a webinar hosted by a local think tank that Trump was trying to create a supremacist revolution at home and abroad.

Bozells nomination must be confirmed by the US Senate.

He was named by Trump in January to head the US Agency for Global Media, an umbrella agency overseeing government-funded broadcasters including Voice of America and Radio Free Europe. But on Friday Trump signed a decree dismantling the agency to the maximum extent consistent with applicable law. His nomination as its chief executive was formally withdrawn on Monday , according to the congressional website.