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 as Ambassador to 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 Beryl Sisulu , a career diplomat, 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 return to the Commonwealth on 1 June 1994, the High Commission was re-established to replace the former Embassy.
Office-holders
The South African High Commission in Yarralumla, Canberra.
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
Incumbent
Start of term
End of term
Herbert Hans Woodward
31 May 1961
8 October 1964 - also served as the last High Commissioner from the Union of South Africa from 8 April to 30 May 1961.
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 Commissioner 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
February 2017
Beryl Sisulu 1 March 2017
14 April 2019
Marthinus van Schalkwyk 15 April 2019
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