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UPDATED: 25 Jun 2009 GMT
  • Independence Day Celebration

    "We celebrate the 233rd anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, our first step in the long American journey toward life as one of the world’s oldest independent, democratic countries. We are also here to cut the ribbon and to dedicate our new Consulate General building in Johannesburg" (Chargé Helen La Lime)

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  • U.S. Men’s Soccer team midfielder Benny Feilhaber US Men’s National Soccer Team Practice Session

    U.S. Men’s Soccer team midfielder Benny Feilhaber with young South African fans. The Soccer Team, currently in South Africa for the Confederations Cup, and the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria co-hosted more than 300 children and caregivers from different community partnership projects at an open practice session.

  • World Economic Forum in Cape Town

    Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Demetrios Marantis visited South Africa June 8- 12 to represent the United States at the World Economic Forum in Cape Town. He also met with South African Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies to discuss ways to strengthen US-SA trade and investment relations.

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Obama Message to Muslims Worldwide
High school students watch in rapt silence President Obama’s historic Cairo speech, in the Mae Jemison Science Reading Room in Mamelodi, a black township on the outskirts of Pretoria. Obama announced a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world based on mutual interest and mutual respect.

Release of 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report
South Africa’s ranking has been upgraded from Tier 2 Watchlist to Tier 2, indicating that this past year, the government made significant efforts to comply with the minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking.

Personalized Training for South African Agriculturalists
Fourteen South Africans will soon travel to the United States to participate in Cochran Fellowships, personalized two to four week agricultural training programs sponsored by the United States’ Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service.

Helen Sung

Helen Sung and NuGenerations
Helen Sung and her jazz band, NuGenerations, with local jazz students. The band were on tour as part of the Rhythm Road program run by the Lincoln Center in New York and funded by the US State Department. They performed in Cape Town and Johannesburg and provided workshops for local students of jazz.

Supporting Grassroots Soccer
Participants in Khayelithsa in the Grassroots Soccer program, funded in part by the United States government’s U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) program. Grassroots Soccer has reached more than 300,000 young people, teaching life skills and healthy habits.

Books for US Funded Christel House School
Consul General Alberta Mayberry visited the newly opened Christel House school to donate books and meet students and faculty. The school offers free education to selected students who fall below the poverty line

South African students

South African Students Heading to United States for Study
PRETORIA: Fifteen young men and women selected from various South African Further Education and Training (FET) colleges will soon depart for the United States to spend one year studying at Community Colleges under the auspices of the United States Department of State.

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Obama's Visit to Africa

The US Mission to South Africa will provide up-to-the-minute updates on President Obama’s trip to Ghana on July 10-11.

You may submit a question to President Obama before his speech on July 11:
>> Via SMS
>> Via AllAfrica's interactive website

We’ll also provide the online links to watch the President’s historic speech as it happens and receive speech excerpts via SMS.

Updates will also be posted on the US Mission’s Facebook and Twitter pages.

More on the visit from America.gov  

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Donald Gips
Donald Gips was named as nominee for Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa. He is currently the Assistant to the President and Director for Presidential Personnel. White House Press Release

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