On 27 January 2020, South Africa’s High Commissioner to Canada, H. E. Sibongiseni Dlamini-Mntambo, gave an address in the Ambassadors’ Series, organised jointly by the Centre for International Policy Studies (CIPS) and the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs (GSPIA) at the University of Ottawa. The address was titled: “Hope and Despair: South Africa after Apartheid.” It was followed by a ‘Question and Answer’ session led by Mr. Jeffrey Simpson, a senior fellow at the University of Ottawa’s Graduate School of Public and International Affairs.