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2018 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.
Special Edition - Issue 16, 2018
Special features in Issue 16 Special Edition
include:
- Liberation Heritage: Steve Biko
- Mandela and Tambo: A lifetime as comrades
- Madiba’s story is a journey across our land
- South Africa welcomes another world heritage site
- Put Foot is putting Afrcican children on the road to success with new shoes
- Attracting investors and tourists to South Africa
- Mapangubwe: South Africa’s lost city of gold
- Vredefort Dome – the world’s biggest meteor crater
- SA Mint celebarates SA’s marine protected areas
- From Big Five to Little Five
- Discover small-town South Africa
- Durban International Film Festival: Longest running in Africa
- Flying the SA flag
- #a good story to tell
Issue 15, 2018:
Special features in Issue 15 include:
- Liberation Heritage: Albertina Sisulu
- Mandela centenary: Icon’s record at your fingertips
- The world mours Mama Winnie
- Sam Nzima was one of a kind
- Armed Forces Day celebrated
- SA female peacekeeper wins the United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award Africa
- Major Hominin trackside discovery in the Western Cape
- South Africa’s 23 wetland hubs of biodiversity
- Discovering the soul of Africa
- How we can create a lost African city with laser technology
- Unique-to-Africa tourism development required innovative engineering
- How Hugh Masekela’s journey in exile shaped his music and politics
- Narritives about South Africa’s black athletes need to be reclaimed and told
- Team SA shines at Commonwealth Games
- Flying the SA flag
- #a good story to tell
Special Edition - Issue 14, 2018
Special features in Issue 14 Special Edition
include:
- Liberation Heritage: Steve Biko
- Mandela and Tambo: A lifetime as comrades
- Madiba’s story is a journey across our land
- South Africa welcomes another world heritage site
- Put Foot is putting Afrcican children on the road to success with new shoes
- Attracting investors and tourists to South Africa
- Mapangubwe: South Africa’s lost city of gold
- Vredefort Dome – the world’s biggest meteor crater
- SA Mint celebarates SA’s marine protected areas
- From Big Five to Little Five
- Discover small-town South Africa
- Durban International Film Festival: Longest running in Africa
- Flying the SA flag
- #a good story to tell