Pretoria, 14 de septiembre de 2019.- Cuban Ambassador to South Africa Rodolfo Benítez Verson, offered a lecture at the University of Johannesburg on the role of Cuba in the struggle for the liberation of Southern Africa.
The event was organized by the Pan-African Institute of Thought and was attended by many professors and students of the aforementioned University. Also participating in the meeting were the Ambassadors of Jamaica and Guyana, who spoke on the role of their respective countries, particularly in supporting aircraft with Cuban internationalists who traveled to Angola in 1975 to repel the aggression of the army of racist South Africa.
The Cuban diplomat offered details on Cuban internationalist missions in support of the struggle of the African liberation movements against colonial domination, foreign aggression and for independence in 17 countries of the continent. He also highlighted the turning point in the history of the sub-region and the end of Apartheid that meant the Cuban internationalist epic in Angola.
The event offered an ideal space for exchange with the students and professors of the University, several of whom intervened to pay tribute to the decisive support provided by Cuba in the battles for the independence of Angola and Namibia and the end of Apartheid in South Africa.
