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Remarks by Hon. Thandi Moraka, Deputy Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, on the occasion of the Budget Vote Speech of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), in Parliament, Cape Town, South Africa, 3 July 2025
Honourable Speaker / House Chair, Honourable Minister Lamola and Deputy Minister Botes, Chair of the Portfolio Committee on International Relations, Hon. Mahumapelo, Honourable Members, Senior Officials of DIRCO led by Director-General Zane Dangor, DIRCO continues to strengthen its internal capacity to deliver on our foreign policy. We are finalising the
Budget Vote Speech of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO), by Deputy Alvin Botes, in Parliament, Cape Town, South Africa, 3 July 2025
Honourable House Chairperson, Honourable Minister Lamola and Deputy Minister Moraka, Chair of the Portfolio Committee on International Relations, Hon. Mahumapelo, Honourable Members, Director-General Zane Dangor and Members of the South African Foreign Service, We present this budget vote at a defining moment in global history—what many analysts describe as a poly-crisis, characterised
Budget Vote Speech delivered by the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation, Mr Ronald Lamola, MP, in Parliament, Cape Town, South Africa, 3 July 2025
House Chairperson, Honourable Members, We’re tabling a budget today, just over a year since the formation of the GNU. We continue to make progress in our international relations work. Honourable Members, I have just returned from Sevilla in Spain, where I represented President Cyril Ramaphosa, where the compromise Sevilla agreement
