Pretoria, Agosto 13, 2019.- As part of the tribute to Commander in Chief Fidel Castro on the occasion of the 93rd anniversary of his birth, the important South African radio station ”Channel Africa” of regional scope, dedicated, this August 13, a special program to the historic leader of the Cuban Revolution.
Pretoria, 7 August 2019.- The Ambassador of Cuba to South Africa, Rodolfo Benítez Verson, held a working meeting with the President of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) H.E. Mr. Roger Nkodo Dang in the headquarters of that important continental body, in Midrand, a locality in South Africa.
Both representatives, exchanged on the work carried out by that Parliament, which is one of the 9 bodies of the African Union and explored ways to continue to strengthen the relations of cooperation between the PAP and the National People’s Power Assembly of Cuba.
An official delegation from Cuba, chaired by the first Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Marcelino Medina González, arrived today in South Africa to hold the Joint Consultative Mechanism Meeting for 2019.
This Mechanism is carried out each year, in this occasion, in the frame of the commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations, which were formalized on 11 May 1994. On the South African side, the meeting will be headed by the Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Alvin Botes.
Pretoria, 4th September, 2019.- In the framework of the official visit to South Africa Marcelino Medina González, first vice minister of Foreign Affairs of Cuba, held a meeting with Ace Magashule, general secretary of the African National Congress (ANC).
Pretoria, 4th September, 2019.- The ANC rejects in the strongest possible terms the latest escalation in the aggressive behavior against Cuba, and the strengthening of the unilateral, illegal and criminal economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed on the island for more than 60 years. It is evident that the objective of the imperialists is to impose regime change in Cuba by strangling the Cuban economy, and causing severe damage to the population. With this kind of conduct, imperialism shows their disdain for international law and human rights in general.