The South African government does not spend conservatively when it comes to its chanceries, official residences, and staff housing abroad.
It’s now emerged that a South African diplomat, under investigation for trashing an apartment in Vienna, is making a habit of it.
“Incompetent, unsuitable and uncouth” – just some of the words used to describe Los Angeles consul-general Thandile Sunduza, our country’s top diplomat in the city.
The saga of Boris and his diplomatic passport rolls on, with the former tennis star trying his utmost to convince everyone he cares about the Central African Republic.
Boris has been talking about how proud he is to be an official diplomat for the Central African Republic. There’s just one rather sizeable problem with that.
It looks like one of our foreign diplomats in Norway has a fair bit to answer for, his drunken antics threatening relations between the two countries.
The latest on the story is that the South African diplomatic policing unit has opened a case crimen injuria and intimidation against Hein van der Merwe, the cyclist accosted by the guards.
A video published to YouTube on Sunday shows a cyclist being wrestled to the ground by three men who appear to be “blue light” VIP security guards. Blue light transportation is typically reserved for cabinet ministers and diplomatic envoys.