US Embassy Pretoria Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/us-embassy-pretoria/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 30 Sep 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 US Embassy Pretoria Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/us-embassy-pretoria/ 32 32 Premature announcement of Lana Marks as U.S. envoy to South Africa https://jjcornish.com/2018/10/premature-announcement-of-lana-marks-as-u-s-envoy-to-south-africa/ Sun, 30 Sep 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/10/premature-announcement-of-lana-marks-as-u-s-envoy-to-south-africa/ Someone’s jumped the gun in naming high-end fashion designer Lana Marks as President Donald Trump’s choice of Ambassador to South Africa. President Cyril Ramaphosa has not yet approved the choice, which is  a vital prerequisite in the process.   It’s called agrement. A country confidentially puts out feelers to the host nation about sending an […]

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]]> Someone’s jumped the gun in naming high-end fashion designer Lana Marks as President Donald Trump’s choice of Ambassador to South Africa.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has not yet approved the choice, which is  a vital prerequisite in the process.

 

It’s called agrement.

A country confidentially puts out feelers to the host nation about sending an envoy.

Only when they have the OK is any announcement made.

The US Embassy in Pretoria is being as cagey about reports of the East London born former tennis international Lana Marks as are the South African Presidency and Department of International Relations and Cooperation.

All three concur that any announcement, if indeed there is one, will have to come from the WhiteHouse 

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