handbag designer Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/handbag-designer/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 15 Nov 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 handbag designer Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/handbag-designer/ 32 32 Donald Trump expects his novice pick for South African envoy to have it in the bag with his Senate majority https://jjcornish.com/2018/11/donald-trump-expects-his-novice-pick-for-south-african-envoy-to-have-it-in-the-bag-with-his-senate-majority/ Thu, 15 Nov 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/11/donald-trump-expects-his-novice-pick-for-south-african-envoy-to-have-it-in-the-bag-with-his-senate-majority/ Johannesburg-educated handbag designer Lana Marks has to be approved by the US Senate before she take take up her job as Washington’s ambassador to South Africa. Once in Pretoria she will have her work cut out smoothing relations with the country President Donald Trump has riled by making remarks described by host President Cyril Ramaphosa […]

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]]> Johannesburg-educated handbag designer Lana Marks has to be approved by the US Senate before she take take up her job as Washington’s ambassador to South Africa.

Once in Pretoria she will have her work cut out smoothing relations with the country President Donald Trump has riled by making remarks described by host President Cyril Ramaphosa as untrue and designed to fuel racial tension.

Donald Trump has finally got agrément from South Africa for the woman he wants to represent his administration in Pretoria.

It remains to be seen how Lana Marks, who has absolutely no diplomatic experience, will be treated by the Senate

Trump, who’s taken nearly two years to make his pick, clearly believes he can rely on the Republican majority in the upper house to get her through

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