INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: South Africa agrees to upgrade Morocco’s diplomatic representation in Pretoria By Peter Fabricius Pfabric
South Africa’s long, frosty relations with Morocco have at last begun to thaw. Pretoria accepted the appointment last week of a full ambassador from Rabat for the first time in 15 years.
He is a seasoned diplomat who has been ambassador to Columbia, Mexico and Chile as well as Secretary-General of the Mediterranean Union. The experts felt that the issue was too divisive within the ANC and so Sisulu and President Cyril Ramaphosa would postpone any decision until after the poll to avoid alienating any faction.
The dynamics of South Africa’s relations with Morocco began to change in 2017 when Morocco rejoined the African Union as part of a major international charm offensive by its head of state King Mohammed VI. It had left the AU’s predecessor body, the Organisation for African Unity in 1984 when the OAU recognised the SADR and accepted it as a member.
Others remained firmly opposed, sticking to the ANC’s ideological line that Western Sahara was Africa’s last decolonisation issue and so Pretoria should keep Morocco at arm’s length until it had recognised the territory’s independence.
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