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Court circuit – Embassy 17 – May 2009
The new Ambassador of Gabon Omer Piankali and the new High Commissioner for Cameroon Nkwelle Ekaney
Niki Katsaouni (Cyprus) and Diane Abbott MP
The High Commissioner for Mozambique Antonio Gumende, the High Commissioner for Tanzania Mwanaidi Maajar, High Commissioner Mabuza and Matthews Phosa, Treasurer General of the ANC
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South African High Commissioner Lindiwe Mabuza and the Welsh Secretary the Rt Hon Peter Hain MP
South Africa Freedom Day
Diplomats, politicians and anti-apartheid
campaigners gathered at South Africa House for a freedom feast and to congratulate departing South African High Commissioner Lindiwe Mabuza. In her final Freedom Day speech, the High Commissioner lived up to her reputation as a people’s poet in a speech that reflected on the progress South Africa had made in its first 15 years of freedom. Speaking about the recent elections she described how 7,000 South Africans queued to vote in the elections whereas before the Square was the site of anti-apartheid vigils. “It was one of the proudest moments we have experienced in this building,” she said, and thanked all the guests from around the world who had joined the struggle against apartheid to make that day possible.
The High Commissioner for Namibia George Liswaniso and the High Commissioner for Mauritius Abhimanu Mahendra Kundasamy
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