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Requiem Mass for Mrs Marla Sanchez Pietton

There will be a requiem mass for Mrs Marla Sanchez Pietton, the wife of the former Ambassador of France in South Africa, at: St Pius X Church, 660 Pienaar Street, Waterkloof, Pretoria, [read ...]

MIDEM ministerial success for SA

The South African Minister of Arts and Culture, Lulu Xingwana, and the French Minister of Culture and Communication, Frédéric Mitterrand, agreed to sign a Programme of Cultural Co-operation for 2010 to 2012 as well as a new film co-production agreement at their bilateral discussions held on (...) [read ...]

President Sarkozy’s speech to diplomatic corps

New Year greeting to the diplomatic corps – Speech by Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the Republic Paris, 22 January 2010 Prime Minister, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs, Ministers, Ambassadors, Ladies and gentlemen, I am very pleased to welcome you here today. I want to extend my (...) [read ...]

"Colloquium on Innate Immunity", French Professor Jean - Marc (...)

The French professor Jean-Marc REICHHART, from the university of Louis Pasteur, member of the "Institut Universitaire de France", Director of Research at CNRS will deliver the opening lecture “THE MENACE OF PATHOGENS” at the occasion of the colloquium on "Innate immunity" to be held at the (...) [read ...]

Earthquake in Haiti: France’s efforts

Earthquake in Haiti – Allocation of €10 million to the United Nations emergency appeal – Communiqué issued by Bernard Kouchner, Minister of Foreign and European Affairs Paris, 18 January 2010 Continuing her active efforts to help the Haitian population suffering so terribly from the 12 January (...) [read ...]

Visit of the French Deputy Minister of Sports, Mrs Rama Yade, to South (...)

Mrs Rama Yade, French Deputy Minister of Sports, visited Johannesburg and Cape Town on the 15th and 16th of January. In Johannesburg, the Minister went to the Millpark Hospital to call on Mr Kodjovi Dodji Obilale, the goalkeeper of the national team of Togo, injured during the attack of the (...) [read ...]

AFD CEO, Jean-Michel Severino, in South Africa

Jean-Michel Severino, AFD’s Chief Executive Officer, was in South Africa (Johannesburg and Cape Town) on November 23rd to 27th, 2009. This visit underlined the spread of AFD’s cooperation actions and parterships built since 1994 and reflected the diversity of AFD’s developmental approaches and (...) [read ...]

THE CONSTANCE CLUB

LAUNCH OF THE CONSTANCE CLUB Address of the Ambassador of France Bonsoir tout le monde, Thank you very much for being here tonight. What a fantastic gathering of professionals! We have advocates, engineers, executives, CEOs, hotel directors, psychologists to name but a few. It is a sample (...) [read ...]

Annual Meeting of the France/ South Africa Political Discussion Forum (...)

The Secretary General of the Department of Foreign and European Affairs, Pierre Sellal, led the French delegation at the France/ South Africa Political Discussion Forum of which the annual meeting was held on Novembers 19th and 20th in Pretoria. He was received by his South African counterpart, (...) [read ...]

Flag ceremony sets 2010 mood

The South African Football Association (SAFA) House at Nasrec was abuzz during a “flag hoisting” ceremony ahead of the 2010 Soccer World Cup. Mr Laurent Clavel, Director of the French Cultural Agency (IFAS) attended the event. [read ...]

French diplomatic news

• Visit to Iraq by François Zimeray, Human Rights Ambassador (06-08.02.10)
• New session of informal talks on Western Sahara (10-11.02.10)
• Earthquake in Haiti (04.02.10)
• Earthquake in Haiti (02.02.10)
• French presidency of the United Nations Security Council (February (...)