Pretoria, 09 August 2024 - Today, South Africa celebrates National Women's Day in honour of the thousands of women who marched on the Union Buildings in 1956 to protest against laws that required black people to carry a special 'pass' or identity card that proved they could enter an area reserved for white people. This was one of the key laws of the apartheid regime and severely restricted black people's freedom of movement.
Pretoria, August 6, 2024 - The Cuban Ambassador to South Africa, Enrique Orta González, was received by the Director for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean of the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation, Mr. Bingo Thamaga, in order to carry out a periodic review of the main issues of bilateral interest.
Pretoria, 1 August 2024 - "More than 120 countries have demanded that Cuba be removed from the State Department's spurious and unilateral list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism!" Those were the words of the Third Secretary of the Cuban Embassy in South Africa, Bryan Betancourt Brito, in an interview with the South African radio station SAfm.
Pretoria, 26 July 2024 - South Africa's Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Alvin Botes, dedicated an emotional article to the 71st anniversary of the attack on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Céspedes barracks, published in the African National Congress-ANC magazine, in which he reflected on the 26 July Movement, cooperation between Cuba and the African continent, relations with South Africa and the blockade against the island.
Cape Town, 20 July 2024 - The African National Congress (ANC) Secretary General, Fikile Mbalula has stressed in an interview that international solidarity remains a priority for the party, including the support for Cuba in its just struggle against the US economic, trade and financial blockade. He identified the Palestinian, Sahrawi and Cuban causes as the party's foreign policy priorities.