After Coetzee Tyron Lee was sentenced to death in Vietnam, DIRCO lifted the lid on more South Africans jailed abroad.

Donald Trump and his remarks on land expropriation were wide of the mark. This is what harms any chances of a serious discussion on rural safety.

The elderly mother is said to have suffered a mental breakdown.

Another twist in this story…

The minister is now in contact with Chinese authorities to end this nightmare.

Oops. Somebody scheduling Tweets for South Africa’s Dirco account didn’t do their research – or didn’t double check – their posts before putting together a Human Rights Day Tweet. Totes awks.

SABA are seething that corruption in South African politics extends 6,000 miles to London…

So the South African government deployed a man who failed his security clearance to one of the most important diplomatic posts in the corps?

An expose by the Sunday Times has shed some light on SA’s high commissioner to the UK, Obed Mlaba, and just what he’s reportedly been getting up to over there.

There’s been quite a bit of back and forth bickering since the DA’s Tswane mayor took his trip to Taiwan, but Solly Msimanga’s not giving in and he’s got a few things he’d like to clarify.

The department of international relations and cooperation (Dirco) wants action taken against Tshwane mayor Solly Msimanga for snubbing the ANC/Chinese relationship and visiting Taiwan… but the DA couldn’t care less.

After the Dalai Lama’s trip to South Africa is cancelled for the third time in five years, China’s influence on SA’s foreign policy can no longer be ignored

The South Africa’s Department of International Relations and Cooperation today announced that the Dalai Lama’s visa application for a visit to South Africa “will be taken through normal due process”. This comes after initial reports by The Cape Times that the Dalai Lama had verbally been refused a visa again this week, while awaiting official confirmation. […]

As the events of the weekend got regional and international leaders worried, South Africa’s involvement in the mountain kingdom’s government take-over appears to be far from clear

Preliminary reports confirm that a South African national was travelling on board Malaysian Airlines flight MH17, which crashed in eastern Ukraine last Thursday. However, since the initial Investigation has not yet looked into cases of dual citizens, the SA government continues to deny the presence of any of its citizens on the doomed airliner

According to a source in the international relations department the SA government found out that its delegation was spied on by the British intelligence during London G20 summit in 2009, and was not surprised by the spying but by the way in which it was carried out.