International Relations Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane touched down in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday for a two-day working visit, her department said. Nkoana-Mashabane was expected to address a seminar called "20 years of South Africa's freedom and relations between South Africa and the Islamic Republic of Iran", said spokesman Clayson Monyela in a statement....

South Africa's Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane says her country has decided to slow down its ties with the Israeli regime in solidarity with the Palestinian cause. Ministers of South Africa do not visit Israel currently. Even the Jewish Board of Deputies that we engage with here, they know why our ministers are not going to Israel, Nkoana-...

South Africa's foreign minister has denounced the Israeli regimes plan to build new illegal settler units in East al-Quds (Jerusalem). That arrangement there in Palestine keeps us awake, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane told members of Cosatu, the largest trade union, which is a political ally of South Africa's ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC),...

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Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has expressed hope that the six powers engaged in nuclear talks with Iran would undertake measures aimed at lifting the illegal sanctions against the country. Considering the confidence-building measures taken by the Islamic Republic of Iran in the course of the negotiations with the P5+1 (the US, Britain,...

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Pretoria, Oct 31, IRNA Visiting Foreign Minister of Iran Mohammad Javad Zarif discussed issues of mutual interest with his South African counterpart Maite Nkoana-Mashabane here Thursday morning. At the beginning of the talks which continued being held behind closed doors, the two pointed to the long-standing and deep relations between Tehran and ...

Tehran, Oct 30, IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif left here for Pretoria, South Africa, to attend the 11th joint economic commission of the two countries. The meeting, co-chaired by Zarif and his South African counterpart Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, is to be held on Thursday. During the past two days, experts of the two countries held meetings ...

Iran news headlines on Monday include Supreme Leader appointment of Ahmadinejad to expediency council; Iran condemnation of west support of terrorists in Syria; top Korean official describing Tehran-Pyongyang as global role models; Iran hosting of Int'l conference on campaign against cyber crimes; country Foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Araqchi remarks ...

International Relations and Co-operation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane said in Tehran on Sunday that South Africa wanted to study expanding economic and trade relations with Iran under its new government. "We will never forget the support extended by the Iranian nation and government for the South African peoples campaign against the apartheid regime,...

South Africa says the countrys foreign minister will take part in the upcoming inauguration ceremony of Iranian president-elect, Hassan Rohani. Speaking at a press conference in the administrative capital of Pretoria on Thursday, South African Deputy Foreign Minister Ebrahim Ismail Ebrahim stated that Maite Nkoana-Mashabane is set to travel to Iran ...