Washington has run out of patience with Pretoria. Joshua Meservey, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, and one of the advocates of the new US visa restrictions on South African officials, tells Gabriel Makin why the Trump administration moved to "the stick", what the five asks actually are, and why he believes the South African government has been trying to run out the clock.

He traces the rift between the US and South Africa back to the Biden years: ambivalence on Ukraine, the Lady R, the ICJ case against Israel, and a UN voting record that backs every anti-Israel resolution while going soft on Iran, North Korea, and Assad's Syria. Gabriel and Joshua also discuss BEE as a burden on American firms, the farm-murder crisis, AGOA and PEPFAR, and what comes next if nothing changes - in Meservey's view, targeted financial sanctions.