HOW REPUBLIC OF SA PRESIDENT RAMAPHOSA CONGRATULATES PRESIDENT-ELECT OF NAMIBIA! (399 hits)
For Immediate Release From Republic of South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa!
"On behalf of the government and people of South Africa, I offer my warm congratulations to President-Elect Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah of our sister country and neighbour, the Republic of Namibia.
Congratulations to you personally, my sister, and to the South West Africa People’s Organisation which has benefited greatly from your leadership as Vice-President of the organisation.
I look forward to us deepening our relationship with Namibia and ensuring that the people of our two nations will come to greater understanding and appreciation of our shared history and our shared future."
"I had an opportunity [t]o personally extend South Africa's well wishes and congratulations to President-Elect Donald Trump on his election as the 47th President of the United States of America. During our telephone call, we both agreed on the need to strengthen our trade and political ties. We also look forward to hosting President-Elect Trump during the G20 Heads of State Summit next year."
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that tourists from Nigeria can now apply for visas without submitting their passports.
The president also disclosed that Nigerian businessmen and tourists who qualified for the process can be “granted a five-year multiple entry visa.”
Ramaphosa spoke on Tuesday at the opening of the 11th session of the Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission (BNC) in Cape Town, South Africa.
The South African leader said his country has simplified its visa processes to facilitate travel for Nigerian business people and tourists, with measures such as five-year multiple entry visas.
He said, “Our efforts to create a favourable environment include our simplified visa process for Nigerian business people to travel to South Africa. Qualifying Nigerian business people can be granted a five-year multiple entry visa,” he said.
President Tinubu meets South African President, Ramaphosa in Cape Town
President Bola Tinubu met with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa at Tuynhuys, Cape Town, on Tuesday, December 3, 2024, for the 11th session of the Nigeria-South Africa Bi-National Commission.
The session aims to strengthen bilateral relations between the two countries, focusing on various collaborative efforts in economic, security, and cultural spheres. The ongoing dialogue underscores the importance of the relationship between Nigeria and South Africa, with both leaders exploring new avenues for cooperation to address shared challenges and foster mutual growth.
As the world pages through the legacy of musician, performer and cultural activist and entrepreneur Quincy Jones, South Africa mourns the passing of this global icon who was a close friend of our country and our struggle for freedom.
We recall his close relationship with our Founding President, Nelson Mandela, whose Inauguration he attended as part of a United States delegation.
This year is a decade since South Africa inducted this great humanitarian as an Esteemed Member of our National Order of the Companions of OR Tambo in recognition of his excellent contribution to the cultural boycott imposed on South Africa to press white voters in the country to accept fundamental political change.
“Q” played a key role in the cultural boycotts imposed on South Africa in the last half of the 20th Century. These boycotts placed necessary and very effective external pressure on the then Government of South Africa to democratise.
The boycotts were efforts based on moral principles with the goal to bring home the costs of apartheid to white South Africans, thereby encouraging them to withhold support for apartheid and instead promote a radical restructuring of the South African political order. Quincy Jones became a cultural and political icon in South Africa when he was prepared to protest against South African politics, to refuse to visit South Africa, and to prevent his works from being made available to TV, cinema or video, and record/CD stores, despite being a highly successful record producer and artist in the USA.
The stand he took highlighted the broader role of the artist in society, and he fought who fought relentlessly against forms of injustices found in his country and in South Africa. Quincy Jones was a formidable performer and creative genius whose most important characteristic was the generosity of spirit with which he collaborated with peers and inspired and opened doors for emerging talent.
Through the nine decades of his life, the meter of his metronome became the beat of our hearts and feet as his mercurial creativity delighted us, stirred social consciousness and united diverse audiences globally in the in the chorus line of our shared human experience.
Just as gender-based violence affects everyone, so too we must all work together to overcome it. We need all community, civic and religious formations to form part of this effort. At this time of activism, we must mobilise businesses, trade unions, academic communities and public servants to get involved.
The African National Congress Youth League congratulates the democratically elected President of Namibia, H.E Dr. Netumbo Ndemupelila Nandi-Ndaitwah.
She has made history by becoming the first female President of Namibia.
Catch the ANCYL National Spokesperson , Cde Zama Khanyase , live on Phalaphala FM, today the 4th of December, at 12:30.
Topic: ANCYL on the appointment of its Deputy President as Deputy Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources.
ANCYL Welcomes Deputy President Mgcina’s Appointment to the Department of Mineral Resources and Petroleum.
ANCYL President, Cde Collen Malatji will tomorrow, 4 December 2024, address the Eastern Cape Special PEC Meeting.
Learn more HERE! and bring a friend: https://www.facebook.com/vukayibambe The South African youth wish her well, may her nation be filled with peace and stability.
