Pretoria, July 22, 2022.- As part of the activities commemorating the assault on the Moncada barracks on July 26, a bust of the Cuban National Hero José Martí was unveiled today at the Embassy of Cuba in South Africa.
STATEMENT BY THE SOUTH AFRICAN COMMUNIST PARTY ON THE ELECTION OF A NEW PRESIDENT OF CUBA
The South African Communist Party (Sacp) congratulates the Communist Party of Cuba, the Cuban Revolution and the Cuban people for the properly managed, unifying and democratic leadership transition marked on Wednesday, 19 April 2018 by the election of Comrade Miguel Mario Díaz Canel Bermúdez as the President of the Council of State.
By Rodolfo Benítez Verson, Ambassador of Cuba in South Africa
March 23, 2018 marks the 30th anniversary of the battle of Cuito Cuanavale, a small town in the Angolan province of Cuando Cubango, 825 kilometers southeast of Luanda, at the confluence of the Cuito and Cuanavale rivers, from which it takes its name.
That remote town became a symbol of resistance and courage, after the victory of the Popular Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA), together with Cuban, Namibian and South African internationalists, against the army of the opprobrious Apartheid regime.
On Sunday, January 28, 2018, after the tribute paid to the National Hero of the Republic of Cuba, José Martí, a meeting was held at the headquarters of the Cuban Embassy in South Africa with a representation of the Association of South African Graduates in Cuba.
The meeting was conducive to an analysis of the work of the Association and to organize the plan of activities for 2018, that will be carried out together with the Embassy of Cuba in the country.
Cuba´s vice President of the Council of State, Salvador Valdés Mesa will pay an official visit to South Africa from January 31 to February 2, 2017, within the mutual aim of consolidating the political and economic links between the two countries. He will meet with Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, and review with South African officials the state of the bilateral cooperation and the conditions to expand it as an example of south-south cooperation.
