On the occasion of the celebration of the Armed Forces Day in South Africa on 21 February, the Ambassador of Cuba, Rodolfo Benítez Verson, participated as a guest in the military parade organized for the occasion, in the city of Kimberley, capital of the province of Northern Cape.
The President of the Republic and Commander in Chief of the South African Armed Forces, S.E. Cyril Ramaphosa, in his speech for the celebration highlighted the importance of bilateral cooperation between Cuba and South Africa in the field of defense.
The Cuban Criminalistics Technology Symposium is held every three years; we are announcing this tenth edition in the context of completing the process of updating and validating the methodological apparatus of Cuban criminalistics. To this end and with a view to raising the professional level of our forces and disseminating our modest results, TECNICRIM 2018 will take place on 18 - 20 September 2018.
Fruitful exchange with Prof. MS Makhanya, Principal / Vice-Chancellor of the University of South Africa (UNISA) and the main executives of this prestigious university.
We have already began to work on an important cooperation project that will enable exchanges of teachers and students, development of distance education in Cuba, a field in which UNISA has great advances, postgraduate courses in the sphere of sciences, pedagogy, engineering , etc.
Excellent perspectives for the cooperation between Cuba and South Africa in Higher Education