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This is an excerpt from South African Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Ronald Lamola’s speech at the 47th United Nations (UN) International Day of Solidarity...
Jewish communal leaders have called on the government to replace its new spokesperson for the department of international relations and cooperation (DIRCO), Chrispin Phiri, after he...
On his first official visit to the United States (US), South Africa’s minister of international relations and cooperation, Ronald Lamola, unashamedly reiterated, “We stand with the...
As Israel braces itself for retaliation after the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on 31 July, South Africa once again blames Israel and...
The United States (US) is significantly closer to reviewing its important bilateral relationship with South Africa as strained ties between the superpower and Pretoria have prompted...
If the Jewish community and its supporters were hoping for a more Israel-friendly minister of international relations and cooperation than Dr Naledi Pandor, they might be...
Several opposition parties have taken on South Africa’s department of international relations and cooperation (Dirco) and its minister, Dr Naledi Pandor, probing its relationships with Hamas,...
Since the outcome of the South African government’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was announced, International Relations and Cooperation Minister Dr...
With more flip-flops than a Havaianas store, the South African government isn’t severing diplomatic relations with Israel after all – for now at least. This is...
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Dr Naledi Pandor has delivered an array of promises on Israel and Gaza, many of them in contradiction with each...
South Africa’s minister of international relations and cooperation, Dr Naledi Pandor, signed a memorandum of understanding with Syria this week. Last month, she was in Tehran,...
The South African cabinet has taken the radical decision to bring back its diplomats in Israel, which will effectively shut down its embassy in Tel Aviv....
As Israel’s war on Hamas intensified this week, so too did the one-sidedness of the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) against Israel...
South African communal leaders have called on the country’s political leaders to stop their “unique discrimination and hostility against the Jewish state” as they tore into...
The visible docking and loading of Lady R, a Russian-sanctioned ship, in the Cape Town naval port of Simon’s Town on the night of 6 December...
Prussian military theorist Carl von Clausewitz reminded us that diplomacy was merely war by other means. Last week, a diplomatic war broke out in Pretoria. In...
Dr Naledi Pandor, the minister of the department of international relations and cooperation (Dirco), has “implored” the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) to engage...
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) has expressed “hurt and dismay” over the “deafening silence” by the department of international relations and cooperation (DIRCO)...
A senior South African government official is in “Palestine” on a working visit for the second time in six months, but has totally ignored Israel. In...
The deputy minister of international relations and cooperation, Candith Mashego-Dlamini, and her entourage took a trip to the Middle East on 21 August 2022 but left...
I try not to take it personally but sometimes, in my darkest moments, I suspect that Naledi Pandor doesn’t love me. It happens in the small...
“Massacre, carnage, butchering, and ethnic cleansing,” were just some of the ways that the African National Congress (ANC) described Israel’s defensive actions in Gaza over the...
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor this week called on the world to join South Africa in its fight against Israel “until victory is...
Minister of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) Dr Naledi Pandor brought a sense of calm in the midst of the recent feverish anti-Israel rhetoric in South...
The deputy minister of the department of international relations and cooperation, Alvin Botes, this week accused Israel of “exploiting” the COVID-19 pandemic by escalating and accelerating...
South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Naledi Pandor, has openly acknowledged Israel’s right to exist in peace and security as a Jewish state, and...
