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The British high commissioner to South Africa is the head of the United Kingdom's diplomatic mission in the Republic of South Africa.. As fellow members of the Commonwealth of Nations, the United Kingdom and South Africa exchange high commissioners rather than ambassadors, and the high commissioner's office in Pretoria is the high commission rather than the embassy.
This is a list of diplomatic missions in South Africa. There are 134 embassies and high commissions in Pretoria, and many countries maintain either an embassy, high commission or consulate in Cape Town and consulates in other major cities. Trade missions and honorary consulates are omitted from this listing.
South Africa. Pretoria (High Commission) Cape Town (Consulate-General) Johannesburg (Trade & Investment Office) South Sudan. Juba (Embassy) Tanzania. Dar es Salaam (High Commission) Dodoma (Dodoma Office) [10] Tunisia. Tunis (Embassy) Uganda. Kampala (High Commission) Zambia. Lusaka (High Commission) Zimbabwe. Harare (Embassy)
The high commissioner is currently Jeremiah Nyamane Mamabolo. 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.
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The beginning of relations between South Africa and the UK began on 31 May 1910 when the Union of South Africa was founded as a Dominion of the British Empire. From 1910 until South Africa declared itself a republic on 31 May 1961, South Africa fought in support and as a part of the British Empire in both World War I and II.
On May 31, 1910, the two ex-republics and the British colonies of the Cape and Natal formed the Union of South Africa, a self-governing dominion of the British Empire. The United States appointed its first envoy to South Africa, Ralph J. Totten, in 1929.
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