List of South African High Commissioners in the United Kingdom
The South African High Commissioner in London is a High Commissioner (Commonwealth) , he heads the High Commission of South Africa, London , the diplomatic mission of South Africa in the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland. The police station is located in the South Africa House in Trafalgar Square . It was designed by Herbert Baker , sculpted by Charles Wheeler and opened in 1933.
From May 31, 1961 to May 31, 1994, South Africa left the Commonwealth of Nations , the title of which was Ambassador to the Court of St James’s during this time .
| time | Commissioner | comment |
|---|---|---|
| 1918-1921 | Reginald Andrew Blankenberg | Chargé d'affaires |
| 1921-1925 | Edgar Harris Walton | KCMG |
| 1925-1929 | Jan Smuts | |
| 1929 | Eric Louw | |
| 1929-1939 | Charles Theodore Te Water | |
| 1939-1943 | Sidney Frank Waterson | |
| 1943-1944 | Deneys Reitz | * 1882 in Bloemfontein; third son of Francis William Reitz |
| 1944-1947 | George Heaton Nichollsborn | * 1876 in Hounslow. England; † September 25, 1959 |
| 1948-1950 | Leif Egeland | |
| May 1950 | Dr. Albertus Lourens Geyer | * August 11, 1894; † December 13, 1969 |
| 1954-1956 | Gerhardus Petrus Jooste | |
| 1956-1958 | John Edward Holloway | |
| 1959-1960 | Albertus Johannes Roux van Rhijn | |
| 1961-1963 | Hilgard Muller | |
| 1964-1967 | Carel de Wet | |
| 1967-1972 | Hendrik Gerhardus Luttig | |
| 1972-1977 | Carel de Wet | |
| April 1979 – October 1980 | Dawid Jacobus De Villiers | * 1940 in Burgersdorp |
| 1983 | Carel de Wet | |
| 1984-1987 | Denis Worrall | |
| February 5, 1987-1991 | Peter Rae Killen | |
| April 15, 1991-31. May 1994 | Kent Diederich Skelton Durr | |
| 1994-1997 | Mendi Msimang | |
| March 2, 1998-2001 | Cheryl Carolus | |
| 2001-2010 | Lindiwe Mabuza | |
| 2010-2018 | Zola Skweyiya | † April 11, 2018 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gastrow: Dawid (Dawie) Jacobus De Villiers. South African History Online, 1992, accessed August 13, 2011 .
- ↑ Rae Killen praat oor tyd in London. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on December 29, 2015 ; Retrieved August 13, 2011 (Afrikaans). 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.
- ^ Nicholas Mansergh, Survey of British Commonwealth affairs: problems of wartime co-operation and Post-War Change 1939-1952, Oxford University Press, 1968 p. 431.
