President Ramaphosa’s would be the first state go to for King Charles III because the latter’s ascension to the throne in September.
King Charles III will welcome South African President Cyril Ramaphosa to the UK for 3 days of high-level talks subsequent month, the primary such go to because the monarch succeeded his late mom Queen Elizabeth II final month.
In a press release on Monday, Buckingham Palace introduced that Ramaphosa has accepted Charles’s invitation for a state go to from November 22 to 24.
The South African chief can be accompanied by First Woman Tshepo Motsepe.
South Africa is a member of the Commonwealth, a political affiliation of 56 international locations, largely former British colonies.
Ramaphosa’s predecessors Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma, the opposite presidents the nation has had since its first multi-ethnic elections in April 1994, have additionally beforehand made state visits to the UK.
Whereas nonetheless the prince of Wales and the duchess of Cornwall, Charles and Camilla, the queen consort, welcomed former South African President Jacob Zuma to the UK in the beginning of a state go to in 2010.
The brand new monarch has visited South Africa on a number of events since 1997. At Mandela’s funeral in 2013, he mentioned the world can be a “poorer place” with out the person who led South Africa’s transition from apartheid to multi-ethnic democracy, including that Mandela was owed “an unlimited debt of gratitude” for his achievements.
The go to comes as Ramaphosa faces an enormous scandal again at residence. Arthur Fraser, the previous head of the nation’s spy company has accused the president of kidnapping, bribery, cash laundering, and “concealing against the law” in relation to the alleged theft of $4m in money discovered at his Phala Phala recreation ranch in northern South Africa.
The nation’s parliament has opened investigations into the matter and Ramaphosa may face an impeachment vote within the coming weeks.