Dar es Salaam, March 29 -- SOUTH AFRICA: South Africas former ambassador to the US has told the BBC it was “self-evident” that there was racism within the Trump administration.

Ebrahim Rasool, 62, was ordered to leave the US last week after Secretary of State Marco Rubio called him a “race-baiting politician who hates America”.

This came after Rasool accused US President Donald Trump of trying to “project white victimhood as a dog whistle”.

Asked by the BBCs Newshour whether he believed the Trump administration was racist, Rasool said: “I think it is self-evident rather than anyone needing to be called out.”

In one of his first interviews since being expelled from the US, Rasool added: &...