Staff Reporter
South Africa has declared Israel’s chargé d’affaires in Pretoria, Ariel Seidman, persona non grata and ordered him to leave the country within 72 hours.
“This decisive measure follows a series of unacceptable violations of diplomatic norms and practice which pose a direct challenge to South Africa’s sovereignty. These violations include the repeated use of official Israeli social media platforms to launch insulting attacks against His Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa, and a deliberate failure to inform DIRCO of purported visits by senior Israeli officials,” said the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) on Friday.
“Such actions represent a gross abuse of diplomatic privilege and a fundamental breach of the Vienna Convention,” the department said, adding they had “systematically undermined the trust and protocols essential for bilateral relations”.
“South Africa’s sovereignty and
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