U.S. President Donald Trump nominated Brent Bozell III as the new ambassador to South Africa on March 25. The date of the Senate confirmation hearings is not known. Bozell, who was active in the New Right’s NCPAC (National Conservative Political Action Committee) in the 1980s, was also active in a smaller, more extreme group that tried to dissuade President Ronald Reagan from meeting with ANC leaders ("terrorists").
While meetings of various kinds between ANC leaders and Afrikaners who were pragmatic or “verligtes” (enlightened) began in 1983 and became more frequent in the succeeding years, Bozell and his group resisted all such contact. Bozell is the nephew of the Buckley brothers (Bill Buckley was the founder of the National Review).
