List of Chinese ambassadors in South Africa
history
In 1905 a consul general of the Qing Dynasty received an exequatur in Johannesburg .
The majority of the Chinese community in South Africa had contracts with the East Rand Mine .
In 1976 the governments of Taiwan and South Africa opened reciprocal embassies. The governments in Pretoria and Beijing have recognized each other since 1998 .
From 1991 to 1997 the government in Beijing maintained the Chinese Center for South African Studies in Pretoria, which was headed by a diplomat with the rank of ambassador.
Appointment / accreditation | ambassador | Standard Chinese | Remarks | Government of china | Government of South Africa | Leave post |
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May 1, 1976 | Kuan Yung | 关 镛 | (* September 9, 1925 -) 1967: Ambassador in Maseru ( Lesotho ), 1986 Ambassador to Riyadh Saudi Arabia, 1994 Ambassador to San José (Costa Rica). | Chiang Ching-kuo | Johannes de Klerk | July 1, 1979 |
July 1, 1979 | HK Yang | 楊 西崑 | Sun Yun-suan | Marais Viljoen | May 1, 1989 | |
May 1, 1989 | Wang Fei | 王飞 | Lee Huan | Frederik Willem de Klerk | Sep 1 1990 | |
Sep 1 1990 | Gene Loh | 陆 以 正 | 1979: Ambassador to Guatemala City and Belopan | Li Peng | Frederik Willem de Klerk | Jan. 1, 1998 |
Dec 1, 1991 | Xie Zhiheng | 谢志衡 | Director of the Chinese Center for South African Studies in Pretoria, 1994: Ambassador in Monrovia | Li Peng | Frederik Willem de Klerk | Dec. 1, 1993 |
Jan. 1, 1994 | Sun Guotong | 孙国桐 | Director of the Chinese Center for South African Studies in Pretoria, 1990-1994 Ambassador to Daresalam | Li Peng | Nelson Mandela | June 1, 1994 |
June 1, 1994 | Ji Peiding | 吉佩 定 | Director of the Chinese Center for South African Studies in Pretoria, 1990-1993: Ambassador in Windhoek, (Namibia). | Li Peng | Nelson Mandela | Oct. 1, 1995 |
Dec. 1, 1995 | Gu Xin'er | 顾 欣尔 | Director of the Chinese Center for South African Studies in Pretoria, (* 1934 in Shanghai) 1985-1989: Ambassador in Accra Ghana, 1991-1996: Ambassador in Harare | Li Peng | Nelson Mandela | Sep 1 1997 |
Oct 1, 1997 | Wang Xue Xian | 王学贤 | Director of the Chinese Center for South African Studies in Pretoria Wang Xinyuan | Li Peng | Nelson Mandela | Dec 1, 1997 |
Jan. 1, 1998 | Wang Xuexian | 王学贤 | United Arab Emirates | Zhu Rongji | Nelson Mandela | March 1, 2001 |
March 1, 2001 | Liu Guijin | 刘贵 今 | 1996: Ambassador in Harare | Zhu Rongji | Thabo Mbeki | Apr 1, 2007 |
Apr 1, 2007 | Zhong Jianhua | 钟建华 | Wen Jiabao | Thabo Mbeki | Dec 1, 2011 | |
March 1, 2012 | Tian Xuejun | 田学军 | (* June 1962) 2004 - 2007: Ambassador in Athens | Wen Jiabao | Jacob Zuma |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kuan Yung
- ↑ Wang Fei
- ↑ Zhong Jianhua
- ↑ Tian Xuejun ( Memento of the original from June 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ chinese-embassy.org.za Ambassadors of the PRC