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2025 ISSUES
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) introduced its stakeholder magazine Ubuntu – South Africa’s Public Diplomacy in action – in August 2012. The publication’s objectives are to communicate with and inform stakeholders on South Africa’s foreign policy positions, achievements, objectives and goals. It also provides analysis and information on key departmental issues ranging from current affairs, bilateral and multilateral milestones, upcoming events, as well as international work done by other government departments, business and parastatals.
Issue 34, 31 March 2025:
Special features in Issue 34 include:
- Liberation Heritage: Breyten Breytenbach a masterful poet, jailed for his politics, who reimagined South Africa
- Being-black-in-the-world: a tribute to pioneering South African psychologist Chabani Manganyi
- Bridging Worlds: Turkish Ambassador Ayşegül Kandaş reflects on a transformative journey in South Africa
- Reflections on South Africa’s 12th official language
- K Sello Duiker, a rock star of South African literature, died 20 years ago. How his work lives on
- About Ofentse Pitse
- Drought and farming: how women in South Africa are using Indigenous knowledge to cope
- Whale superhighways along the West Coast—a conservation success story
- From Pain to Progress: Storytelling and Healing at Freedom Park
- Flying the flag