This year’s Human Rights Month marks the 60th anniversary since the Sharpeville Massacre which took place on 21 March 1960, where the apartheid police shot and killed 69 people in a peaceful protest march. Human Rights Month is commemorated annually in March to remind South...

HE Ambassador Rapulane Molekane presented his credentials as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Africa to the Slovenian President Mr Borut Pahor, at the Presidential Palace, Ljubljana, Slovenia on 25 February 2020.

Dear Fellow South African, 

The deliberations by Parliament on the National Health Insurance Bill are soon to enter a new phase as the Portfolio Committee on Health’s country-wide public hearings wrap up. These hearings, held in a number of places...

On 17 February 2020, Ambassador Molekane, South Africa’s Resident Representative to the IAEA and Governor, alongside the Governors of Mongolia, Germany, Sweden, and Paraguay paid a courtesy call to Ms. Asako Omi, the Parliamentary Vice-Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan....

Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Thandi Modise,
Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Mr Amos Masondo,
Deputy President David Mabuza,
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng and esteemed members of the judiciary,
Former President Thabo Mbeki and Mrs...

H.E. Excellency Ambassador Rapulane Molekane met with Mr Harald Mahrer, President of the Austrian Economic Chamber (WKO) on 13 February 2020 to intensify current trade and investment relations between two countries.

Dear Fellow South African,   At the end of the week, I will travel to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia for the African Union summit at which South Africa will assume chairship of our continental organisation for the next year.   We plan to use this great responsibility, among...