Tag: Diplomat

APPOINTMENT OF ROELF MEYER AS ENVOY TO THE US “LEAVES MUCH TO BE DESIRED”

The announcement by President Cyril Ramaphosa that he has appointed former apartheid-era government kingpin Roelf Meyer as South Africa’s ambassador to the US is a hard pill to swallow. Our President: a gentle soul, whose love for our country is beyond reproach. A lawyer by profession and former trade unionist whose stature rose like a […]

NEW US ENVOY BOZELL’S START IN SA IS UNSAVOURY

South Africa’s fate appears to be like water on the palm of the hand of the US administration. A cursory desktop search has a plethora of examples that shows the utterly lopsided bilateral ties between Pretoria and Washington. It need not be like this. Diplomatic relations between two nations are premised on fundamental ethos such as mutual respect, voluntary cooperation and […]

ISRAELI DIPLOMAT EXPELLED FROM SA

The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) has informed the Government of the State of Israel of its decision to declare Mr Ariel Seidman, the Chargé d’Affaires of the Israeli Embassy (in Pretoria), ‘persona non grata’ (unacceptable and unwanted). This decisive measure follows a series of unacceptable violations of diplomatic norms and practice which […]

“WE WILL IMPLEMENT FOCAC RESOLUTIONS WITHOUT DELAY” – AMB WU

China’s top envoy to South Africa, Ambassador Wu Peng, is a diplomat on a mission: He wants to bolster bilateral ties between Pretoria and Beijing to the level where benefits of the existing “golden era relations” could be felt and seen across every sphere of society. Amb Wu was briefing the media at a special […]