List of high commissioners of South Africa to Australia
High Commissioner of South Africa to Australia | |
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Incumbent since 1 March 2017Marthinus van Schalkwyk | |
Style | His Excellency |
Appointer | Cyril Ramaphosa |
Inaugural holder | Dr Philip Rudolph Viljoen |
Formation | February 1949 |
Website | South African High Commission, Canberra |
The high commissioner of South Africa to Australia is an officer of the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation and the head of the High Commission of the Republic of South Africa to the Commonwealth of Australia. The position has the rank and status of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary and holds non-resident accreditation as Ambassador to the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia. The high commissioner is based with the High Commission in Yarralumla in Canberra.
The high commissioner is currently Beryl Sisulu, a career diplomat, and South Africa and Australia have enjoyed diplomatic relations since 1949. On South Africa's departure from the Commonwealth of Nations in 1961, the High Commission became an Embassy. Following the end of Apartheid and South Africa's return to the Commonwealth on 1 June 1994, the High Commission was re-established to replace the former Embassy.
Office-holders
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High commissioners from the Union of South Africa, 1949–61
Incumbent | Start of term | End of term |
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Dr. Philip Rudolph Viljoen[1][2] | February 1949 | 14 November 1951 |
G. C. Neil (acting) | 15 November 1951 | 20 February 1954 |
Johann Kunz Uys | 21 February 1954 | 10 June 1957 |
Anthony M. Hamilton | 10 September 1957 | 27 March 1961 |
Ambassadors from the Republic of South Africa, 1961–94
Incumbent | Start of term | End of term |
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Herbert Hans Woodward | 31 May 1961 | 8 October 1964 - also served as the last High Commissioner from the Union of South Africa from 8 April to 30 May 1961. |
Johan Christiaan Holm Maree | 24 June 1965 | 14 January 1969 |
Johann Kunz Uys | 3 February 1969 | 1971 |
John Brent Mills | 1971 | 1977 |
Alan John Oxley | 1977 | 1983 |
Denis Worrall | 1983 | 1984 |
Cornelius A. Bastiaanse | 13 August 1984 | 1988 |
Francis David Tothill | 1988 | 1992 |
Naudé Steyn | 8 September 1992 | 1 June 1994 |
High commissioners from the Republic of South Africa, 1994 to date
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Incumbent | Start of term | End of term |
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Naudé Steyn | 1 June 1994 | 1996 |
Bhadra Ranchod | June 1996 | 2003 |
Anthony Mongalo | 2003 | 2009 |
Lenin Magigwane Shope | 26 February 2009 | 2010 |
Mauritz C. Lindeque | 21 November 2010 | 2011 |
Koleka Anita Mqulwana | 17 February 2011 | 2015 |
S'bu Ndebele | 13 May 2015 | February 2017 |
Beryl Sisulu | 1 March 2017 | 14 April 2019 |
Marthinus van Schalkwyk | 15 April 2019 |
See also
- Australia–South Africa relations
- Foreign relations of South Africa
- List of high commissioners of Australia to South Africa
References
External links
- South African High Commission, Canberra