Image of Meyer via X South African Communist Party SACP on the ill-advised appointment of apartheid-era politician Roelf Meyer as South Africa’s ambassador to the US Friday, 17 April 2026 - The South African Communist Party (SACP) has noted with great concern the decision of the President of the Republic of South Africa to appoint Mr Roelf Meyer as South Africa’s ambassador to the US. While the president has the constitutional authority to appoint ambassadors to represent th

Scores of protesters picketed outside the US Consulate General in Cape Town. The protesters demanded that the US end its sponsorship of the Palestinian genocide. All photos by Mzi Velapi By Mzi Velapi, Elitsha, South Africa Waving Palestinian and Iranian flags and chanting ‘Hands off Venezuela’, protesters lined the road outside the United States of America Consulate General in Cape Town as part of ‘intensified protests’ against ‘American Imperialism’ on Thursday. Led by the

Image via video screenshot on X Various Sources After a broad coalition of South African trade unions, political formations, civil society organisations and solidarity movements including the South African Communist Party (SACP) called for an emergency protest, protestors rallied en masse outside the US embassy in Pretoria to condemn the US military invasion of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores. Acc

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