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Netherlands–South Africa refers to the current and historical relations between the Netherlands and South Africa.Both nations share historic ties and have a long-standing special relationship, partly due to the Dutch colony in the Cape, linguistic similarity between Dutch and Afrikaans and the Netherlands' staunch support in the struggle against Apartheid.
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.
Brun was succeeded by the Dutch merchant Antonie Veldkamp in 1883 and by the local Euro-African Jacob Abraham de Veer in 1887. [3] De Veer was the last honorary consul based in Elmina. In 1895, the consulate moved to Cape Coast, and in 1923 to Accra. In 1961, after Ghana became an independent country, the consulate was upgraded to an embassy. [4]
Besides the embassy, a U.S. consulate-general is located on Curaçao which is responsible for the territory of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the Caribbean. [4] This consulate is not part of the U.S. diplomatic mission to the Netherlands.
Consulate-General 2017 Norway: Consulate-General 2010 Portugal: Consulate-General 2015 Sweden: Consulate-General 1985 Utrecht Suriname: Consulate-General 2010 Rotterdam Brazil: Consulate-General 2012 [4] Sweden: Consulate [a] 1983 [5] Switzerland: Consulate-General 1997
Netherlands has an embassy in Moscow, a consulate-general in Saint Petersburg, and an honorary consulate in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Russia has an embassy in The Hague. Serbia: 1899-04-26: Netherlands has an embassy in Belgrade. [307] Serbia has an embassy in The Hague. [308] The Netherlands is a European Union member and Serbia is a candidate. Slovakia
However, from 1961 to 1994 South Africa was not a member of the Commonwealth, so for that time the British head of mission was an ambassador and his office was the embassy. Besides the high commission in Pretoria, the UK maintains a consulate-general in Cape Town . [ 1 ]
A Dutch passport (Dutch: Nederlands paspoort) is an identity document issued to citizens of the Kingdom of the Netherlands for the purpose of international travel. As the Netherlands only distinguish one category of citizen (Nederlandse (Dutch), NLD), for all countries in the Kingdom, passports are the same for all four countries.