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President Ramaphosa to co-chair the Eighth SA-EU Summit

6 March 2025 Media Statement

President Cyril Ramaphosa will on Thursday, 13 March 2025, co-chair the Eighth South Africa-European Union (SA-EU) Summit with the President of the European Council, Mr António Luís Santos da Costa, and the President of the European Commission, Dr Ursula von der Leyen, at Tuynhuys in Cape Town, Western Cape Province. The Eighth Summit takes place […]

Speech by Minister Ronald Lamola delivered in Parliament, on the Motion: USA decision to cut USAID funding and the response thereto, on 6 March 2025

6 March 2025 Minister Lamola | Speeches

It was the great son of Africa, President Kwame Nkrumah who once said, “We face neither East nor West; we face forward.” This, Honourable Members, is the foreign policy outlook of this Republic. Indeed, we as South Africa face neither East nor West, we face forward, we move forward. We are not the playthings of […]

South Africa notes the decision by the United States Government to withdraw from the Just Energy Transition Partnership

6 March 2025 Media Statement

USA President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14162 in terms of which the United States is engaging in a re-prioritisation exercise and is thus revoking and rescinding the U.S. International Climate Finance Plan issued by the previous administration, including policies that were implemented to advance JETP. As a result, effective immediately, the USA has announced […]

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