Johannesburg, 26 July 2025. Cuba's Chargé d'Affaires a.i. in South Africa, Ambassador Esther Armenteros Cárdenas, participated on behalf of Cuba in the Liberation Movements Summit, held this weekend in Kempton Park, Johannesburg. he ambassador's speech contained a message of solidarity with the just causes of peoples around the world, especially the Palestinian people.
Pretoria, 23 July 2025. Yesterday afternoon, a wreath was laid at the monument bearing the names of Cuban internationalists who fell in Africa, in the Freedom Park complex, in the presence of Lázara Mercedes López Acea and the delegation accompanying her. The delegation is visiting South Africa to participate in the Global Meeting on MSMEs.
Pretoria, 19 July 2025. The Association of South African Graduates in Cuba (CAASA) condemned the new measures announced by the current US administration against senior officials in the Cuban Communist Party and government. The organisation issued a public statement expressing its solidarity with the island.
Pretoria, 15 July 2025. The Young Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA) issued a statement of solidarity with Cuba and its leaders in response to the new sanctions imposed by the Donald Trump administration against the Cuban president and other senior government and Communist Party officials.
Havana, 11 July 2025.- President Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez received Solly Mapaila, General Secretary of the South African Communist Party, at the Palace of the Revolution. The close ties that unite Cuba and South Africa, fostered by historical leaders Fidel and Mandela, were highlighted, in which inter-party relations are a strength.