Pretoria, October 27, 2020.- As part of the celebrations for the National Day of Culture, various activities were held in South Africa that culminated in a cultural evening.
Pretoria, October 20, 2020.- During 40 years, the people of Cuba has celebrated the Day of Cuban National Culture every October 20.
The date was instituted in commemoration of one of the most relevant events that the History of Cuba treasures, the intonation for the first time of the National Anthem, also on October 20, 1868.
Pedro Figueredo Cisneros, Major General of the Cuban Liberation Army, was the creator of that combat march entitled "La Bayamesa", sung by the people in the Cuban city of Bayamo, the day it was liberated by the Cuban Liberation Army.
Pretoria, October 16, 2020.- The Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Eswatini, Hon. Ambrose Mandvulo Dlamini, presided over an official ceremony in the country's capital as part of the celebrations of the 15th anniversary of the Cuban Medical Brigade in the Kingdom,
The ministers of Health, Foreign Relations, and Labor and Natural Resources, and members of the National Parliament also attended the ceremony.
Greetings from our Embassy to all participants in this important Cuba-South Africa Business Forum organized by the Chamber of Commerce of Cuba and the Johannesburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
As it is well known, Cuba and South Africa maintain excellent diplomatic, political, and cooperation relations. In fact, both countries have formally qualified the bilateral relationship as a Strategic Partnership, which is a qualification States only uses in exceptional cases.
Pretoria, October 10, 2020.- October 14, 2020- A productive virtual Cuba-South Africa Business Forum was held today, an initiative aimed at promoting bilateral economic, trade and investment relations, in the current context of the intensification of the unilateral and illegal blockade imposed by the government of the United States against Cuba and the COVID-19 pandemic.