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The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) is the foreign ministry of the South African government. It is responsible for South Africa's relationships with foreign countries and international organizations, and runs South Africa's diplomatic missions.
According to the article published by diplomatic Society Newspaper, [1] on 9 June 2018, workers in the Diplomatic sector met at the Union Buildings for talks on forming a trade union for all of the local South African and migrant workers recruited by the foreign missions, such as Embassies and International Organizations in South Africa, which followed talks between the representatives and the ...
The minister of international relations and cooperation is the foreign minister of the South African government, with political responsibility for South Africa's foreign relations and the Department of International Relations and Cooperation. The present minister is Ronald Lamola, who was appointed by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 30 June 2024.
The South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) is an independent public policy and foreign relations think tank based in Johannesburg, South Africa. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Founded in 1934 in Cape Town , the institute has been located on the campus of the University of the Witwatersrand since 1944.
The executive branch of the national government of South Africa is divided into the cabinet and the civil service, as in the Westminster system. Public administration, the day-to-day implementation of legislation and policy, is managed by government departments (including state agencies with department status), which are usually headed by permanent civil servants with the title of director ...
See Iran–South Africa relations. South Africa and Iran share historical bilateral relations and the latter supported the South African liberation movements. It severed official relations with South Africa in 1979 and imposed a trade boycott in protest against the country's apartheid policies. However, in January 1994, Iran lifted all trade ...
Pandor was speculated to be appointed Deputy President of South Africa. [40] She was Ramaphosa's original choice for Deputy President back in 2017 at the ANC's elective conference. [41] She was instead appointed Minister of International Relations and Cooperation and assumed office on 30 May 2019. [42]
Alvin Botes (born 9 September 1973) is a South African African National Congress (ANC) politician from the Northern Cape who has been serving as the Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation since May 2019. He became a Member of the National Assembly of South Africa in February 2018.