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World Refugee Day
Address by Naledi Pandor MP, Minister for Home Affairs, on the occasion of the World Refugee Day, Tshwane, 20 June 2013
June is youth month in South Africa. We focus on young people and recall their contribution to the struggle. Many of them were prepared to risk their lives and liberty for a free South Africa.
In particular, we highlight the contribution that many young people made to education struggles during apartheid and since the beginning of our democracy.
On 16 June 1976 pupils in Soweto took to the streets to protest changes to the curriculum and began a revolt that rocked the foundations of the apartheid system. Many of the leaders went into exile and became refugees in SADC countries and elsewhere. Others stayed and suffered the terrible consequences.
The United Nations' ‘1 family torn apart by war is too many' campaign encourages us to think about children. Children suffer the consequence of armed conflict and displacement more than adults. Their sense of security is destroyed and it is difficult to rebuild that sense of security in other countries and other places. It’s right that the UN promotes this campaign so that we think about the importance of families and the importance of giving children the security that a family provides.
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act
Address by President Jacob Zuma on Gala Dinner marking the Centenary of the 1913 Land Act, Cape Town
As of yesterday 19 June, South Africa marked 100 years of the 1913 Land Act which dispossessed land from the black majority. The then racist colonial government passed the Act that stipulated that blacks could no longer own land. It also restricted black people from buying or occupying land except as employees of a “white person”.
By 1913, when the law was passed formalising the dispossession and theft of land from indigenous people, Sol Plaatjie pointed out, a black person found himself “not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth”.
While the Act dispossessing land from black people was promulgated in 1913, the dispossession of land began earlier than 1913. The colonial wars were in essence about land, with the indigenous people fighting endless battles to retain control of their land and dignity.
South Africa participates at the 55th International Art Exhibition in Venice
 On 31 May 2013, the South African Consul-General in Milan, Mr Saul Kgomotso Molobi, as Commissioner of the South African Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition at the Venice Biennale, welcomed the Honourable South African Minister of Arts and Culture, Mr Paul Mashatile and his high-level delegation and accompanied them during their two-day visit to this prestigious contemporary art exhibition taking place in Venice from 1 June to 24 November 2013. The South African Ambassador in Rome, Ms Nomatemba Tambo, also joined the Minister during his visit.
South African Food and Wine in Algeria
 Ms. Kotane, Spouse of Ambassador Joseph Kotane, Head of Mission Algiers and Ms. Thukani, Spouse of Mr Themba Thukani, First Secretary Political- South African Embassy, Algiers pictured at the International Lunch hosted by the Association for Diplomatic Spouses in Algiers (AFDA) which was held on 14 June 2013 at the Hilton Hotel, Algiers. The Lunch was an opportunity for Embassies to showcase their traditional cuisine.
National Days
Philippines
Toasting the 115th Anniversaryof the Proclamation of Philippine Independence in Pretoria are (l-r) Ambassador CT Rubushe, Acting Director General (DIRCO), Ambassador Constancio R Vingno Jr of the Philippines to South Africa and Madame Yoko Ramos-Vingno.
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