Author: aarti

Nominations are now open for South Africans who continue to represent the country in an extraordinary fashion internationally.

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday, 19 January 2022, joined Dr Patrick Soon-Shiong, founder of the multinational conglomerate NantWorks, LLC, in launching the NantSA vaccine manufacturing campus at Brackengate, Cape Town.

The African Union will continue calling for the debt burden on African economies to be reduced, says Dr Naledi Pandor.

This briefing is being held to provide you with an overview of work done in implementing South Africa’s foreign policy in 2021. We have been and continue to engage all countries that have imposed unscientific and discriminatory travel bans on our country and region. We are pleased that diplomacy is bearing fruits.

The vaccine patent waiver request was one of many items that fell by the wayside when the WTO cancelled this week’s long-awaited in-person meeting of trade ministers set for Geneva. Her Excellency Dlamini-Mntambo said she hoped to see it back on the WTO’s agenda soon.

The 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children is a United Nations campaign that focuses on raising awareness of the negative impact that gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) has on women and children, and the social fabric of our society.