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The Republic of South Africa was established on May 31, 1961, and that day, U.S. Ambassador Joseph C. Satterthwaite was reaccredited to the new republic. [ 1 ] During the subsequent decades and especially from the 1960s through early 1990s, relations between the United States and South Africa were significantly affected by South Africa's policy ...
The United States appointed its first envoy to South Africa, Ralph J. Totten, in 1929. He was appointed as Minister Resident/Consul General and promoted to Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary the following year. South Africa was renamed the Republic of South Africa on May 31, 1961, after links to the British crown were severed.
This is a list of diplomatic missions in South Africa. There are 134 embassies and high commissions in Pretoria , and many countries maintain either an embassy, high commission or consulate in Cape Town and consulates in other major cities.
The United States has maintained an official presence in South Africa since 1799 when an American consulate was opened in Cape Town. The U.S. Embassy is located in Pretoria , and Consulates General are in Johannesburg , Durban and Cape Town.
U.S. Department of State Facilities and Areas of Jurisdictions. The United States has the second largest number of active diplomatic posts of any country in the world after the People's Republic of China, [1] including 271 bilateral posts (embassies and consulates) in 173 countries, as well as 11 permanent missions to international organizations and seven other posts (as of November 2023 [2]).
Reuben E. Brigety II (born September 7, 1973) is an American diplomat and academic who has served as the United States ambassador to South Africa since August 2022. He was the vice-chancellor and president of the University of the South, in Sewanee, Tennessee, from 2020 to 2021.
South Africa has an embassy in Vienna. Belarus: 4 March 1993: Belarus has an embassy in Pretoria [123] South Africa is accredited to Belarus from its embassy in Moscow, Russia. [123] Belgium: 28 August 1933: Belgium has an embassy in Pretoria and a consulate-general in Cape Town. South Africa has an embassy in Brussels. Bulgaria: 2 February 1992
This is a list of diplomatic missions of South Africa. South Africa dramatically expanded its diplomatic presence globally, especially in Africa, in the immediate years after the end of apartheid . It was the only country to have embassies in the various bantustan states of Transkei , Venda , Bophuthatswana and Ciskei that South Africa established.