Mandela and Fidel, united in history
Pretoria, July 19, 2019.- Interview with the Ambassador of South Africa in Cuba, Thaninga Pandit Shope-Linney in coordination with the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, on the occasion of the 101st anniversary of the birth of Nelson Mandela. Interview for the newspaper Juventud Rebelde (JR)
JR.- What are the main teachings Nelson Rolishlahala Mandela (Madiba) left for South Africa and the world?
Press Statement: Message on the Occasion of International Mandela Day
Pretoria, July18th, 2019.- Cuba celebrates today, along with millions of people around the world, the birth of Nelson Mandela, of whom the Comrade Raul Castro said that "he was recognized as the supreme symbol of dignity and the unwavering consecration to the revolutionary struggle for freedom and justice, as a prophet of unity, reconciliation and peace.”
Press Statement: FOCUS Condemns the Latest USA Aggression against Cuba
Pretoria, 12 July, 2019.- The Friends of Cuba Society (FOCUS) joins millions of people around the world to condemn the latest Trump Administration aggressive measures towards Cuba which aims to extend its illegal blockade against Cuba. The Helms Burton Act of 1996 is now being codified by the Trump Administration to permit lawsuits to be filed in USA courts against Cuban entities.
Declaration by South African Association of Graduated in Cuba on the USA Economic Blockade against Cuba
Pretoria, 9 July, 2019.- We the graduates of Cuba constituted mostly by doctors, health sector professionals and other professions such as engineering, economics, the military, education and others, hereby condemn the economic aggressive inhumane sanctions against the peaceful Republic of Cuba which have been rejected by the international community represented by the United Nation as from 1992 every year until this year (2018) in November.
Eighty-seven New South African Doctors Graduated Thanks to the Fidel- Mandela Program
Pretoria, July 5, 2019. – 87 students of medicine who took their first five years of studies, graduated in the South African province of Western Cape.
The University Walter Sisulu was the venue of the graduation ceremony of these new health professionals graduated under the South African students’ medical training programme in Cuba, initiated in 1997 after the cooperation agreement signed in 1996 between Cuba and South Africa; known as the Fidel-Mandela Programme.