Cuban VP Chairs Ceremony for Anniversary of Cuba-South African Relations

HAVANA, Cuba. Visiting Cuban Vice President Esteban Lazo presided over a ceremony to mark the 15th anniversary of the establishment of bilateral relations between Cuba and South Africa, held on Sunday at Freedom Park in Pretoria, South Africa.

On behalf of the South African government, Dr. Ayanda Ntsaluba, general director of the South African Foreign Ministry, praised the excellent state of bilateral relations between both nations and thanked Cuba for its contribution to the independence of Africa and South Africa, in
particular.

As part of the ceremony, members of the Cuban visiting delegation and of the Cuba-South Africa Friendship Association laid floral wreaths at the Wall of Names at Freedom Park, where the names of more than 2000 Cuban internationalists who died fighting for the independence of Africa are engraved.

Granma daily reported that the ceremony was attended by personalities such as Nobel Literature Prize laureate Nadine Gordimer; national poet Keorapetse Kgositsile; the president of the National Heritage Council, Sonwabile Mancotywa; and Esoop Pahad, former Minister in the President's Office

Also present were officials of the South African Foreign Ministry, the African national Congress, the South African Communist Party and Cuban health and construction professionals working in the South Africancapital.


(Participa Esteban Lazo en acto por relaciones Cuba-Sudáfrica)