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The Embassy of the Republic of South Africa in Berlin is honoured to announce that on 11 October 2016 His Excellency, Ambassador Phumelele Stone Sizani, presented his Letter of Credence to His Excellency President Joachim Gauck accrediting him as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Republic of South Africa to the Federal Republic of Germany.
H. E. Ambassador Phumelele Stone Sizani was born on 2 March 1954 and received his Master of Arts in Development Studies from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom. He acted as Regional Director at the Kagiso Trust (Eastern Cape) and as IDT Regional Director (Eastern Cape, Western Cape, Northern Cape and Gauteng Province). Ambassador Sizani was from 1998-1999 Political Advisor for the Eastern Cape Premier and from 1999-2002 MEC Department of Education, Eastern Cape EXCO. From 2008-2016 he was Member of Parliament, the last three years of which he was also Chief Whip of the ANC.
Ambassador Sizani speaks Xhosa, Afrikaans and English. He is married and has four children.
Newly appointed and accredited South African Ambassador to Germany, H.E. Phumelele Stone Sizani, held a small and intimate get-together at the Embassy to meet members of the Diplomatic Corps and partners and friends of the Embassy and the Republic of South Africa.
In his speech Ambassador Sizani said that âPeace and Reconciliation are very important aspects to South African politics and that this could only be done by talking and not fightingâ. Ambassador Sizani also highlighted that the upcoming Binational Commission which is held this year from 15-16 November in Berlin is very important to both countries in that a variety of topics are discussed with high ranking Officials including the Minister of the Department of International Relations and Co-operations, Ms Nkoana-Mashabane and her German counterpart Foreign Minister Steinmeier.
South Africa will take over the Chairmanship in Berlin of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Group in the Spring of 2017 and is part of the G20 which is chaired in the coming year by Germany.
This year the Embassy of the Republic of South Africa was the organising host of the Commonwealth Remembrance Day in Germany. Remembrance Day is celebrated in the United Kingdom and in parts of the Commonwealth on the second Sunday in November each year. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Berlin Cemetery is the last resting place for some 3,594 servicemen from Great Britain, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Poland and South Africa, most of whom that died from 1939 to 1945 during World War II.
Remembering and hounouring those that served and that have lost their lives in the line of duty has a long tradition in South Africa. Those remembrance acts are taken very seriously and are equally important for men and women in uniform as they are for the South African people in general. The Embassy of the Republic of South Africa therefore took great pride in organising this Commonwealth Act of Remembrance outside the South African borders and thereby remembering those that gave their lives so that we may live in freedom.
The Remembrance Act was followed by a Remembrance Sunday Ecumenical Service at St George`s Anglican Church, and a small reception after the service hosted by the South African Embassy at the church concluded the commemoration.
The South Africa-Germany Bi-national Commission is held every two years, alternating between Berlin and Pretoria. The two partner countries debate global challenges and coordinate possible collaboration in politics, the economy, environment, development cooperation, defense, education, science, technology, culture and labour and social affairs.
The Commission was established as a result of President Nelson Mandela's state visit to Germany in 1996. Ever since, the Bi-national Commission has contributed immensely to further strengthening South African-German relations. In 2014, the Commission met for the eighth time, in Pretoria.
The Ninth Session of the South Africa-Germany Binational Commission (BNC), co-chaired by the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of South Africa, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, and the Foreign Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier took place in Berlin on 16th November 2016. (Photo Credit: German Foreign Ministry)
The Embassy of the Republic of South Africa in Berlin held a reception in honour of the former Public Protector of South Africa: Advocate Thuli Madonsela who served as Public Protector from 2009 until October 2016. Advocate Madonsela was in town to receive the German Africa Award from the German Africa Foundation.
H.E. Ambassador Sizani emphasized that the institutions that are in Chapter Nine of the South African Constitution, such as the Public Protector, were installed to protect the interests of the people of South Africa. And he thanked Advocate Madonsela for telling the unflinching truth to the powers in South Africa.
Ingo Badoreck, Secretary General of the German African Foundation said that we were here to celebrate that South Africa had a well-functioning democracy and that South Africa continued to be very important and good partners for Germany and vice versa.
In her address Advocate Madonsela said that the objective of the reports produced by her former office was never to embarrass any individual but they were produced to tell the truth in the nicest way possible. She insisted that most times it had been a rewarding experience where people who were addressed by her office made sure to make amends.
Since more than one year, RISE has been organising (South) African inspired House Music Parties at the famous Watergate Club in Berlin. The next RISE Party will take place on the 3 December 2016, starting 23h55 and featuring Henrik Schwarz, Floyd Lavine, Dede, Hyenah, Jamie, Laolu and others! Especially South Africa, but also many other African countries, has become a hub for new and innovative house and techno sounds in recent years. RISE wants to be a platform for this inspiring new music in Berlin!
On Monday, 5 December 2016 - on the anniversary of Mandela's passing - Mayibuye Südafrika Community e.V. organises an open and critical discussion on Nelson Mandela's legacy. Mr Mandela, South Africa's first democratically elected president, died on 5 December 2013. Due to his illustrious past - as a person of justice, integrity, determination, dedication and utter bravery - he became a living symbol to South Africa and the world.
What has Mr Mandela's legacy as a human being, freedom-fighter, prisoner, thinker, politician and statesman left behind? What have we - especially the young - learnt from such a remarkable personality? Has he failed us in any way, and if so, how and where and to what extend?
Lebohang Kganye and Kitso Lynn Lelliott are part of the group exhibition »Studio Bamako«, relating to 2016 Rencontres de Bamako, the 10th edition of the African Biennale of Photography in Mali.
Lebohang Kganye is currently studying Fine Arts at the University of Johannesburg. She was awarded with the Tierney Fellowship Award in 2012 and has exhibited in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Potchefstroom, Cape Town, Harare, London, Amsterdam, Paris and New York. In her two-part series entitled »Ke Lefa Laka« (2013) she approaches her own family history. While in »Her story« she combines photographs of herself wearing her motherâs clothes with historic pictures taken of her mother, she exhibits self-portraits in menâs clothes amidst life-sized cardboard collages bringing her grandfatherâs life during apartheid times to mind in »Heir-story«.
Kitso L. Lelliott, is a PHD Candidate at University of the Witwatersrand and aims to contribute to the creation of more nuanced and productive images of Africa that is continually poorly represented. She has had art exhibitions at the Uganda Museum, VDU Menų galerijoje â101â of the Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania and the Goethe on Main Gallery in Johannesburg as well as films at film festivals such as Africa in Motion in Edinburgh ,Shnit film festival Cape Town, Cine Sud and Cap au Sud, France, Tri-Continental Film Festival in South Africa and Next Reel Film Festival, Singapore. At »Studio Bamako« she presents her video work »By and By Some Trace Remains« (2015), which deals with questions regarding the colonial past. By cleaning a soiled and abandoned office on Constitution Hill in Johannesburg over and over, a woman works off the layers of the past.
The South African curator Gabi Ngcobo will head the tenth Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, due to take place in the summer of 2018. Ngcobo has most recently co-curated the 32nd Biennale of São Paulo (until 11 December) and in 2007 co-curated the Cape07 Biennale in Cape Town. She will join an illustrious list of past curators of the Berlin Biennale, among them Hans Ulrich Obrist, Maurizio Cattelan and Ute Meta Bauer.
Ngcobo is a founding member of the Nothing Gets Organised (NGO) collective and the now-defunct Center for Historical Re-enactments, a collaborative art platform for research and discussion. She also teaches at the Wits School of Arts, University of Witwatersrand. Ngcobo currently divides her time between Johannesburg and São Paulo, but will move to the German capital in the run up to the biennial.
She follows the New York-based collective DIS who organised this yearâs Berlin Biennale, which received mixed reviews. The Berlin Biennale styles itself âas an âopen spaceâ that experiments, identifies and critically examines the latest trends in the art worldâ, according to a statement on its website. The biennial was founded in 1996 by the then director of Berlinâs KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Klaus Biesenbach, with a group of collectors and patrons. Its first edition took place in 1998.
On 23 November 2016, South Africa's former Public Protector Thulisile Madonsela, who for seven years tirelessly fought against corruption and for the defense of the constitution, was attributed the prestigious German Africa Award 2016 of the German Africa Foundation in Berlin. The award was handed over by Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert, acting President of the German Parliament, in the framework of celebratory ceremony attended by more than 300 high-ranking guests at Allianz Forum near Brandenburger Gate. In his speech Mr Lammert said: âMadonsela is an exceptional personality whose actions will have an impact beyond her own mandate and the borders of her own country."
In September 2016, the German translation of Ivan Vladislavic's novel âExploded View. Johannesburgâ was published by Osburg Publishers. Vladislavic, who was awarded the Windham Campbell Prize (Yale) in 2015, once again proves to be a master of the second view. He is an expert in combining the details that explain the mechanism of the whole. He precisely describes the South African reality of life, placing the focus on architecture that illustrates the societal changes. The result is an impressive portrait of South Africa at an unprecedentedly high language level.
16 days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children launch, 28 Nov 2016 - President Jacob Zuma joined by Limpopo Premier Stanley Mathabathe and Minister in the Presidency Susan Shabangu officially launched the 16 days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children campaign in Lebowakgomo in Limpopo Province held under the theme "Count me In: Together moving a non-violent South Africa Forward". (Picture: 25/11/2016, Elmond Jiyane, GCIS)
This month marks eight years since the world lost one of its most important voices, âMama Africaâ Miriam Makeba. And although the life and legacy of the late South African singer, activist and icon were explored in a 2011 documentary (Mika Kaurismäkiâs Mama Africa), the film community has yet to pay proper tribute to Makeba. This will soon change. As Deadline and a number of other outlets have reported, the Miriam Makeba biopic the world needs is officially in development. FINALLY!
Currently untitled, the movie is in partnership with the Miriam Makeba Estate, Miriam Makeba Foundation and Mama Africa Cultural & Social Trust, and itâs being produced by de Passe Jones Entertainmentâs Suzanne de Passe, who penned the script to the 1972 Billie Holiday film Lady Sings The Blues, and her longtime business partner, Madison Jones. Also on board to produce are Broadway producer Willette Klausner, music producer David Franco and Makebaâs former publicist and confidant, the journalist Marc Le Chat.
The Minister of Home Affairs together with the Statistician-General of South Africa has launched a project on the digitisation of Home Affairs civil records on 23 November 2016. The digitisation project follows a close collaboration between the Department of Home Affairs and Statistics South Africa and signifies a transition from the old systems of record keeping to a modern, efficient and secure storage method that will ensure speedy retrieval of records for processing applications such as birth certificates, irrespective of location in the country.
In pursuit of building a unified, inclusive and caring South African society, the Department of Home Affairs launched the inaugural Mkhaya Migrants Awards as part of the Africa Day 2015 programme. The Mkhaya Migrants Awards aim primarily to recognise outstanding migrants residing in the country who immensely make contribution to South Africaâs development in various fields. The 2016 Mkhaya Migrants Awards are earmarked for 11 December 2016 leading up to the 18th of December 2016, which marks the annual International Migrantsâ Day on 18 December 2016.
The Department of Home Affairs has granted a blanket extension, until 31 March 2017, of all study visas issued for the purpose of studies at tertiary institutions in South Africa. The extension applies to all study visas with an expiry date of, or prior to, 31 December 2016, and it is on condition that the date of departure from South Africa is not later than 31 March 2017
Due to the official South African public holiday celebrating "Reconciliation Day", the Embassy of the Republic of South Africa in Berlin (incl. the Consular Section) as well as the Consulate General in Munich will be closed on Friday, 16 December 2016.
Both the Embassy in Berlin and the Consulate in Munich will also stay closed from 27 to 30 December 2016.
The South African Missions are in the process of compiling a reliable database of South African citizens living in Germany. As a South African citizen living in Germany, it would be appreciated, if you could complete the online registration form.
By registering, the Embassy is assisted in determining how many citizens are abroad in a city, town or region in Germany. It assists missions to plan and to be able to contact you and your family in South Africa in the event of an evacuation, natural disaster, family emergency etc. Furthermore, your contact details enable the Embassy to provide you with information related to Embassy events, registration for general election, etc.
Please note that this is a voluntary exercise, and we would like to assure that all information contained on the form is for the sole use of the Embassy in Berlin and Consulate General in Munich. Hence the information provided will be handled as strictly confidential and will not be divulged to other persons or institutions.
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