Antonie Eduard Loubser

Antonie Eduard Loubser (* 1935 in Mowbray , Cape Town ) is a former South African diplomat and since 2004 Monegasque Consul General in Pretoria .

Life

Antonie Eduard Loubser is a descendant of Nikolaus Laubscher . He graduated from the University of Stellenbosch Business School with a bachelor's degree in economics and continued his studies up to a master's degree at the University of Pretoria . He also obtained a bachelor's degree in law from the University of South Africa . From 1958 to 2000 he was employed in the Foreign Service of South Africa. From 1958 to 1960 he was a cadet at the South African Military Academy . From 1961 to 1969 he worked in Paris, where in 1965 he was promoted from third-class legation secretary to second-class legation secretary. From 1970 to 1975 he was Counselor at the Mission in Brussels. From 1976 to 1979 he was Counselor in the Foreign Ministry in the Francophone and Northern Africa Department . From 1980 to 1983 he was Ministre plénipotentiaire in Paris . From 1984 to 1985 he was chief of protocol in the South African Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

South African Ambassador to Tel Aviv

From 1986 to 1988 Loubser was ambassador to Tel Aviv . The South African government supported the establishment of Israel in 1948 at the United Nations. 110,000 Jews lived in South Africa, and they were represented in the Parliament of South Africa by the South African Jewish Board of Deputies and in Israel by Yosef Ahimeir , a spokesman for Yitzchak Shamir .

In 1953 Daniel François Malan visited Israel. In March 1970, Julius Nyerere , Kenneth Kaunda and Milton Obote protested within the Commonwealth of Nations against arms deliveries from the United Kingdom to South Africa. On January 25, 1971, Obote was overthrown by Idi Amin with Israeli arms help.

From March 21 to 23, 1971, a meeting of the Organization of American States took place in Addis Ababa . The continued aggression against the United Arab Republic was condemned in a unanimous resolution . Israel had offered $ 2,850 for African liberation movements.

Liberation movement representatives suggested that Israel find a more appropriate way of dealing with Arab guerrilla groups, whereupon Israel withdrew the offer. In March 1971, investment controls in South Africa were eased to encourage Israeli investment in South African companies. Balthazar Johannes Vorster said he could not understand how Israel, which had a terrorist problem itself, could justify contributions to other terrorists and the financial transfer from South Africa to Israel was temporarily frozen.

From April 9 to 12, 1976, Balthazar Johannes Vorster visited Israel. In 1984 Pik Botha visited Yitzchak Shamir . In March 1986, Shimon Peres' cabinet announced that it would curtail relations with South Africa, which first manifested itself in a reduction in official visits. In June 1987 a special committee recommended further sanctions against South Africa to the cabinet.

From July 9 to 12, 1987, the African National Congress and the Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (Idasa) met in Dakar Senegal. Hans-Dietrich Genscher sparked Uffe Ellemann-Jensen as EU president from both offered to host a follow-up conference in Copenhagen and Bonn on. In August 1987 Antonie Eduard Loubser turned to Shimon Peres and asked him to intervene with Uffe Ellemann-Jensen and Hans-Dietrich Genscher to withdraw their offers to host talks between white South Africans and the African National Congress. Jossi Beilin replied to the Israeli press: We are no longer the South Africans' public relations work .

In the summer of 1987, a delegation made up of 22 representatives from the Afro-American community visited Israel and indicated that the announced restriction of relations with the South African government was necessary so that the three billion dollar annual financial aid would continue to be approved in the US Congress.

On September 16, 1987, Shimon Peres' cabinet adopted ten measures to restrict economic and cultural relations with South Africa. Antonie Eduard Loubser was appointed to the Foreign Office and informed of the sanctions.

On September 17, 1987, a senior official at the Department of Commerce put the balance of trade between the two countries at $ 0.22 billion, 70% of Israel's coal needs. On September 18, 1987, South African Airways advertised another weekly flight between Tel Aviv and Johannesburg in September and October, a measure that was agreed with the Ministry of Commerce against the background that one of the ten measures of September 16, 1987 was aimed at tourism in the two countries concerned.

In some cases, business relationships with South Africa were transacted after they were made public. Beit-Alfa Technologies Ltd. (BAT) owned by Kibbutz Beit Alfa pledged not to deliver water cannons to South Africa anymore. At the end of 1985 a delegation from the Histadrut visited South Africa, held talks with representatives of the Congress of South African Trade Unions and agreed to use a different form of investment than Takonics , a Swiss branch of Koor Industries Ltd. , for the union fees . , after Ran Cohen published the structure of Iskoor , which was founded in April 1973 and has annual sales of USD 25 million = 51% Takonics + 49% Mittal Steel South Africa.

It announced that no contracts with South Africa in the field of defense technology had been extended since March 1986 and that these would expire in the 1990s. Failure to renew the contracts in 1986 would result in the elimination of 5,000 jobs in the defense technology sector. Israeli companies sold defense equipment in the order of $ 125 to $ 400 million. to South Africa, although the Israeli government has repeatedly stated that it will comply with the arms embargo against South Africa imposed by United Nations Security Council Resolution 418 .

The South African embassy found allies in Israeli companies to campaign against the sanctions. After the Israeli government announced that it would take ten measures to reduce ties, Antonie Eduard Loubser said Israel and South Africa have been close together over the years. It should be understood that these relationships are not superficial and he is determined to ensure that nothing happens to disturb this.

From 1988 to 1989 Antonie Eduard Loubser had exequatur as consul general in Copenhagen. In Denmark there was lively opposition to the apartheid regime in South Africa. In 1989 the South African consulate general was occupied by around 150 people as a protest. From 1990 to 1991 Loubser was ambassador to Copenhagen. From 1991 to 2000 he directed three galleries of the South African National Association for the Visual Arts (SANAVA) in the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Consulate General of San Marino in Pretoria, South Africa
2. ↑ Rupert Neudeck , Die Kraft Afrikas: why the continent is not yet lost, p. 171; Steven Carol, From Jerusalem to the Lion of Judah and Beyond: Israel's Foreign Policy in East Africa, p. 15
3. ↑ RESOLUTIONS ( Memento from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) ADOPTED BY THE EIGHTH ORDINARY SESSION OF THE ASSEMBLY OF HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT HELD IN ADDIS ABABA FROM 21 TO 23 JUNE 1971
4. ↑ The Dakar Declaration ( Memento from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
5. ^ Haaretz , 25 years after slapping sanctions on South Africa, tables have turned on Israel
6. ^ Glenn Frankel in The Washington Post , September 20, 1987, An Israeli Dilemma ( September 21, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive ): S African Ties Moves to Cut Links Are Slowed by Economic Pressures, Sentiment
7. ^ Roger Pfister, Apartheid South Africa and African States: From Pariah to Middle Power, 1961-1994, pp. 200 f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Johannes Van Dalsen	South African Ministre plénipotentiaire in Paris from 1980 to 1983	Robert Abraham Du Plooy
David de Villiers du Buisson	Ambassador to Tel Aviv 1986 to 1988	Johan C. Lotter
Hakon Marius Christiansen D. Gert Grobler	Head of the South African diplomatic mission in Copenhagen from 1988 to 1991	Conrad Sidego