Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool on how the South Africa president, Cyril Ramaphosa navigated his way through an Oval Office ambush. He reflects on the challenges faced during his tenure as ambassador to the US, and the influence that wealthy white South Africans seem to have over the Trump administration.

Ambassador Rasool also shares powerful personal experiences from his own life under apartheid. I ask him if he regrets uttering his candid assessment of American politics to a public forum. No way, he says. He has no regrets.