List of high commissioners of South Africa to Australia
The High Commissioner of South Africa to Australia is an officer of the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation and the head of the High Commission of the Republic of South Africa to the Commonwealth of Australia. The position has the rank and status of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary and holds non-resident accreditation for New Zealand (and the Realm of New Zealand), Samoa, the Marshall Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia. The High Commissioner is based with the High Commission in Yarralumla in Canberra.
The High Commissioner is currently S'bu Ndebele, a former South African Minister for Corrections, and South Africa and Australia have enjoyed diplomatic relations since 1949. On South Africa's departure from the Commonwealth of Nations in 1961, the High Commission became an embassy. Following the end of Apartheid and South Africa's re-entry into the Commonwealth on 1 June 1994, the High Commission was re-established.
Office-holders
The South African High Commission in Yarralumla, Canberra.
High Commissioners, 1949–61
| Incumbent | Start of term | End of term |
| Dr. Philip Rudolph Viljoen[1][2] | February 1949 | 14 November 1951 |
| G. C. Neil (acting) | 15 November 1951 | 20 February 1954 |
| Johann Kunz Uys | 21 February 1954 | 10 June 1957 |
| Anthony M. Hamilton | 10 September 1957 | 27 March 1961 |
Ambassadors, 1961–94
| Incumbent | Start of term | End of term |
| Herbert Hans Woodward | 8 April 1961 | 8 October 1964 |
| Johan Christiaan Holm Maree | 24 June 1965 | 14 January 1969 |
| Johann Kunz Uys | 3 February 1969 | 1971 |
| John Brent Mills | 1971 | 1977 |
| Alan John Oxley | 1977 | 1983 |
| Denis Worrall | 1983 | 1984 |
| Cornelius A. Bastiaanse | 13 August 1984 | 1988 |
| Francis David Tothill | 1988 | 1992 |
| Naudé Steyn | 8 September 1992 | 1 June 1994 |
High commissioners, 1994–date
Ambassador Anthony Mongalo (right) in June 2013.
| Incumbent | Start of term | End of term |
| Naudé Steyn | 1 June 1994 | 1996 |
| Bhadra Ranchod | June 1996 | 2003 |
| Anthony Mongalo | 2003 | 2009 |
| Lenin Magigwane Shope | 26 February 2009 | 2010 |
| Mauritz C. Lindeque | 21 November 2010 | 2011 |
| Koleka Anita Mqulwana | 17 February 2011 | 2015 |
| S'bu Ndebele | 13 May 2015 | present |
See also
References
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