List of ambassadors and high commissioners of South Africa to the United Kingdom

The high commissioner of South Africa to the United Kingdom is an officer of the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation and the head of the High Commission of the Republic of South Africa to the United Kingdom in London. The position has the rank and status of an ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary and also serves as South Africa's permanent representative to the International Maritime Organization (since 1959), a trustee of the Imperial War Museum and South Africa's Commonwealth War Graves Commissioner.

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.

Office-holders

High commissioners from the Union of South Africa, 1910–61

IncumbentStart of termEnd of termNotesSir Richard SolomonJune 191010 November 1913Sir David GraaffAugust 1914November 1914William SchreinerNovember 191428 June 1919Sir Reginald Blankenberg (Chargé d'affaires)28 June 1919February 1921Sir Edgar WaltonFebruary 1921September 1924Jacobus Stephanus SmitSeptember 1924March 1929Eric LouwMarch 1929November 1929Charles Theodore Te WaterNovember 1929September 1939Sidney Frank WatersonSeptember 1939June 1943Deneys ReitzDecember 194219 October 1944George Heaton Nicholls19441947Leif EgelandMarch 19481950Albertus Lourens GeyerMay 1950June 1954Gerhardus Petrus JoosteSeptember 19541956John Edward Holloway19561958A. J. R. van Rhijn19591960Hilgard Muller196130 May 1961

Ambassadors from the Republic of South Africa, 1961–94

Appointed by the State President of South Africa upon constitutional advice of the Prime Minister of South Africa from 1961, then directly appointed by the State President alone until 1994.

IncumbentStart of termEnd of termNotesHilgard Muller31 May 19611963Carel de Wet19641967Hendrik Gerhardus Luttig19671972Carel de Wet19721979Dawie de VilliersApril 1979October 1980Carel de Wet19801983Denis Worrall19841987Peter Rae Killen5 February 19871991Kent Durr15 April 199131 May 1994

High commissioners from the Republic of South Africa, since 1 June 1994

Appointed directly by the President of South Africa.

IncumbentStart of termEnd of termNotesMendi Msimang19951997Cheryl Carolus2 March 19982001Lindiwe Mabuza20012010Zola Skweyiya20102014Obed Mlaba20142017Nomatemba Tambo20182022Jeremiah Nyamane Mamabolo2022date

See also

South Africa–United Kingdom relations List of high commissioners of the United Kingdom to South Africa

References

External links

South African High Commission, London