You can read the full article here. Key quotes from the interview include the following.

"Those were three strikes and you're out as far as we were concerned”, in reference to the South Africans refusing to address US concerns on rural safety and investment.

“You've got a president of South Africa who refuses to condemn an incitement to kill."

"Ask 100% of the world if 'kill the farmer, kill the Boer' isn’t hate speech….If that isn't hate speech, I don't know what hate speech is: inciting people to commit murder. So the answer we've gotten is, well, the court said it isn't. To which our response is look, in the United States, the president can disagree with the court and does about every five minutes because that's what you do in a democracy when you disagree with something."

“…your mining has to go through race-based programs. We're not going to allow your investments to go the way everyone else has been allowed to go".

"perhaps most of all, he [President Trump] is concerned about how South Africa has been systematically leaving the non-alignment space and moving closer and closer to our adversaries."

"There are people who are living in the glory days of the Soviet Union, and they want to go back to the good old days of communism. Why are they still working with Cuba?"

"Why are they working with Iran and Hamas terror organizations? What's Russia doing for them? What's China doing for them? This is bad news when they're going in that direction.”

"There are literally billions of dollars from American firms and American government investments ready to go into mining, but it's not going to go there so long as you have these race-based avenues they must go through. In telecom, Elon Musk has said he will put Starlink in 500 schools and pay for it in perpetuity if he's allowed to go this way. And they said, 'No, we want 30% of your company.' So yeah, of course it [Black Economic Empowerment policy] is hurting."

Last week, South Africa’s foreign ministry called Bozell in for his third formal reprimand after he had expressed frustration at the slow pace of talks between the two countries. This followed a decision by the American Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to move towards travel sanctions against key South African leaders. That move, in turn, followed a refusal by South Africa’s government to reply meaningfully and timeously to a United States request to come to terms on a future trade and investment pact. South Africa has, for over 18 months, delayed, obfuscated, and run circles around coming to terms on a new investment pact, raising doubts in Washington about whether its government is serious about improving investment and diplomatic ties.

The sense in Pretoria is that it can go toe to toe with the Americans, given that the forthcoming midterm elections may weaken the Trump administration.

What are the implications?

At this stage, it’s a game of chicken to see who will blink first. For the South Africans, this is uncharted territory, as they’ve never before confronted a Western administration prepared to press terms on the government. For the Trump administration, this is very much more familiar territory and territory in which its vastly disproportionate economic heft lends it a considerable advantage.