Poland in South Africa

The gen. Władysław Anders scholarship program for the Polish diaspora is addressed to foreigners of Polish origin - nationals of: Belarus, Bulgaria, Czechia, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Moldova, Rumania, Slovakia, Hungary, countries of former Yugoslavia, Ukraine, Russia and countries of Central Asia and Caucasus, Latin America and Africa. The program enables young people of Polish origin and holders of the Card of the Pole (Karta Polaka) to study in Poland (full-time programs, in the Polish language) in higher education institutions supervised by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education.

On the initiative of the Holocaust & Genocide Centre in Johannesburg and in cooperation with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and the Israeli Embassy in Pretoria, official commemoration of the International Holocaust Remembrance Day and the 75th anniversary of the liberation of KL Auschwitz was held on 27 January 2020.

Message of the President of Poland on the 75th Anniversary of Liberation of the Nazi German Death Camp KL Auschwitz.

Summer courses of the Polish language and culture 2020

“The Sejm of the Republic of Poland condemns the provocative and untrue statements by representatives of the highest authorities of the Russian Federation attempting to hold Poland liable for the Second World War. A nation’s greatness and international relations may not be built upon lies and by falsifying history,” reads the resolution adopted by acclamation on Thursday. With this resolution, the deputies opposed to Russian politicians spinning the truth and falsifying history in order to discredit Poland and deteriorate Polish-Russian relations.

Statement by the Prime Minister of Poland Mateusz Morawiecki 29.12.2019

About four thousand guests took part on 23 November in the annual lecture of the Nelson Mandela Foundation. Given the symbolism, the event took place on the university campus of the University of Johannesburg, in the suburb of historical poverty and resistance against racial segregation – Soweto.

Compared to the results of the previous PISA 2015 survey, Polish students achieved better results in all areas of studies: reading literacy, mathematical literacy and science literacy. In all three areas covered by the survey, the results of Polish students are above the average for OECD countries and place them in the forefront.

On the occasion of the 101st anniversary of Poland regaining independence and the 200th birthday anniversary of Stanislaw Moniuszko, the Polish Embassy in Poland organized a concert of classical music in the masterful performance of Polish artists – Joanna Maklakiewicz and Marek Bugajski. The programme included the works of Frederic Chopin and Stanislaw Moniuszko, the outstanding Polish composers of the 19th century, whose artistry contributed to the strengthening of the identity of the Polish nation and also to raise the spirits of Poles living abroad.

Olga Tokarczuk, Polish writer and activist, won the Nobel Prize in Literature for “a narrative imagination that with encyclopedic passion represents the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.”