South Africa Ambassador to United States
Encyclopedia
| # | Picture | Name | Term of office | Prime Minister/President(s) served under | Ref |
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| 1 | Harry Thomson Andrews | 1949-02-29/1949-09-26 | |||
| 2 | Gerhardus Petrus Jooste | 1949-09-26/1954-08-26 | |||
| 3 | John Edward Holloway | 1954-08-26/1956-08-07 | |||
| 4 | Wentzel Christoffel du Plessis | 1956-08-07/1960-09-13 | |||
| 5 | Willem Christiaan Naude | 1960-09-13/1965-02-09 | |||
| 6 | Harald Langmead Taylor Taswell | 1965-02-09/1971-08-18 | |||
| 7 | Johan Samuel Frederick Botha | 1971-08-18/1975-07-30 | |||
| 8 | Pik Botha Pik Botha Roelof Frederik "Pik" Botha is a former South African politician who served as the country's foreign minister in the last years of the apartheid era... |
1975-07-30/1977-05-11 | B. J. Vorster | ||
| 9 | Donald Bell Sole | 1977-05-11/1982-06-04 | |||
| Pieter Willem Botha Pieter Willem Botha Pieter Willem Botha , commonly known as "P. W." and Die Groot Krokodil , was the prime minister of South Africa from 1978 to 1984 and the first executive state president from 1984 to 1989.First elected to Parliament in 1948, Botha was for eleven years head of the Afrikaner National Party and the... |
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| 10 | Bernardus Gerhardus Fourie Bernardus Gerhardus Fourie Bernardus Gerhardus Fourie was Secretary of Foreign Affairs for the Republic of South Africa in the 1970s and early '80s. In 1982 he was appointed South African ambassador to the United States, and served from June 4, 1982 until September 23, 1985... |
1982-06-04/1985-09-23 | |||
| 11 | Johannes Albertus Hermanus Beukes | 1985-09-23/1987-05-01 | |||
| 12 | Piet Koornhof Piet Koornhof Pieter G. J. Koornhof was a South African politician. As an apartheid-era National Party cabinet minister, he held various portfolios in the cabinets of B.J. Vorster and P.W. Botha, and was later appointed ambassador to the United States... |
1987-05-01/1991-03-06 | |||
| Frederik Willem de Klerk Frederik Willem de Klerk Frederik Willem de Klerk , often known as F. W. de Klerk, is the former seventh and last State President of apartheid-era South Africa, serving from September 1989 to May 1994... |
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| 13 | Harry Schwarz Harry Schwarz Harry Heinz Schwarz was a South African lawyer, statesman and long-time political opposition leader against apartheid, who eventually served as the South African ambassador to the United States during the country’s transition to representative democracy.Schwarz rose from the childhood poverty he... |
1991-03-06/1995-01-12 | |||
| Nelson Mandela Nelson Mandela Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing... |
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| 14 | Franklin A. Sonn | 1995-01-12/1999-03-08 | |||
| 15 | Sheila Sisulu | 1999-03-08/2003-08-28 | Thabo Mbeki Thabo Mbeki Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki is a South African politician who served two terms as the second post-apartheid President of South Africa from 14 June 1999 to 24 September 2008. He is also the brother of Moeletsi Mbeki... |
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| 16 | Barbara Masekela | 2003-08-28/ | |||
| 17 | Welile Nhlapo | 2009 | |||
| Kgalema Motlanthe | |||||
| Jacob Zuma Jacob Zuma Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma is the President of South Africa, elected by parliament following his party's victory in the 2009 general election.... |