List of South African ambassadors to the United States

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This is a list of the South African ambassadors to the United States .

ambassador

Appointment accreditation	Surname	comment	appointed by	accredited by the government	Leave post
November 5, 1929	Eric Louw	Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire	George V.	Harry S. Truman
January 31, 1934	Ralph William Close	Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire	George V.	Harry S. Truman
March 13, 1944	Stefanus François Naudé Gie	Appt. Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire	George VI.	Harry S. Truman	April 9, 1944
May 7, 1945	Jan Ruiter Jordaan	Chargé d'affaires	George VI.	Harry S. Truman
4th July 1945	Harry Thomson Andrews	On March 3, the legation was upgraded to an embassy.	George VI.	Harry S. Truman	September 26, 1949
September 26, 1949	Gerhardus Petrus Jooste		George VI.	Harry S. Truman	August 26, 1954
August 26, 1954	John Edward Holloway		Elizabeth II	Dwight D. Eisenhower	7th August 1956
7th August 1956	Wentzel Christoffel du Plessis		Elizabeth II	Dwight D. Eisenhower	September 13, 1960
September 13, 1960	Willem Christiaan Naudé		Elizabeth II	Dwight D. Eisenhower	February 9, 1965
February 9, 1965	Harold Langmead Taylor Taswell		Charles Robberts Swart	Lyndon B. Johnson	18th August 1971
18th August 1971	Johan Samuel Frederick Botha		Jacobus Johannes Fouché	Richard Nixon	July 30, 1975
July 30, 1975	Botha of Spades		Johannes de Klerk	Gerald Ford	May 11, 1977
May 11, 1977	Donald Bell Sole		Johannes de Klerk	Jimmy Carter	4th June 1982
4th June 1982	Bernardus Gerhardus Fourie		Marais Viljoen	Ronald Reagan	September 23, 1985
September 23, 1985	Johannes Albertus Hermanus Beukes		Pieter Willem Botha	Ronald Reagan	May 1, 1987
May 1, 1987	Piet Koornhof		Pieter Willem Botha	Ronald Reagan	March 6, 1991
March 6, 1991	Harry Black		Frederik Willem de Klerk	George Bush	January 12, 1995
January 12, 1995	Franklin Abraham Sun.		Nelson Mandela	Bill Clinton	March 8, 1999
March 8, 1999	Sheila Sisulu		Thabo Mbeki	Bill Clinton	August 28, 2003
August 28, 2003	Barbara Masekela		Thabo Mbeki	George W. Bush
July 1, 2009	Welile Nhlapo		Thabo Mbeki	Barack Obama	4 November 2009
2011	Ebrahim Rasool		Thabo Mbeki	Barack Obama	4 November 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Welile Nhlapo : Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ↑ Ebrahim Rasool : Archived copy ( memento of the original from September 27, 2011 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. 
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