Poland in South Africa

The Consular Section of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Pretoria kindly informs you about the consular outreach in Cape Town, which will take place on 15-17 March 2025.

On 24 February 2025, Poland’s top diplomat Radosław Sikorski took part in UN events organised in New York at three-year mark of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.

The Medal of the Courier from Warsaw Award Gala took place on 19 February 2025 at 8:30 pm at the Warsaw Rising Museum.

Maximising support for Ukraine, maintaining current policies towards Russia and Belarus, as well as strengthening the European Union’s and its partners’ security and resilience are the priority areas for the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union as part of common foreign and security policy. Minister Radosław Sikorski outlined them at today’s session of the European Parliament's Committee on Foreign Affairs.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland marks the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the German Nazi concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau: a place which became a symbol of unimaginable human suffering and barbarity.

In 2025, Poland holds a one-year presidency of the Community of Democracies, a global intergovernmental coalition of countries whose main goal is to promote democratic principles and standards worldwide.

Thesaurus Poloniae is a three-month scholarship programme organised by the International Cultural Centre in Krakow since autumn 2009. The programme is addressed to international scholars conducting research on the culture, history and multicultural heritage of the Republic of Poland and Central Europe.

Please be informed that due to the public holidays the Embassy of the Republic of Poland and Consular Section in Pretoria will be closed on 6 January 2025.

At the initiative of the President of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Duda, the 13th edition of the National Reading took place this year under the honorary patronage of the Presidential Couple. “Kordian” by Juliusz Słowacki was chosen as the reading of the National Reading.

The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Pretoria organised a classical music concert entitled “Pearls of Polish Music” performed by Prof Maria Pomianowska on 5 December 2024. The aim of the event was, among others, to promote Polish culture in the context of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the first half of 2025.