{"id":820859,"date":"2025-04-14T12:52:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=820859"},"modified":"2025-04-14T12:53:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T10:53:01","slug":"ramaphosa-appoints-special-envoy-to-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/820859\/ramaphosa-appoints-special-envoy-to-the-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramaphosa appoints special envoy to the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>South African President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed former Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas as special envoy to the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn this capacity, Mr. Jonas is entrusted with the responsibility to advance South Africa\u2019s diplomatic, trade and bilateral priorities,\u201d according to a statement seen by Bloomberg and verified by the presidency on Monday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe will lead negotiations, foster strategic partnerships and engage with U.S. government officials and private-sector leaders to promote our nation\u2019s interests.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The appointment comes a month after Washington expelled Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool over comments he made about US policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jonas, who turns 65 this year, currently serves as chairman of telecommunications company MTN Group \u2014 a position he will retain alongside his responsibilities as envoy, according to the presidency. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s also worked as one of four so-called presidential investment envoys that Ramaphosa appointed in 2018 to facilitate investment into South Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African President Cyril Ramaphosa appointed former Deputy Finance Minister Mcebisi Jonas as special envoy to the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":820862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-820859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=820859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":820863,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820859\/revisions\/820863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}