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Joint Press Statement on the occasion of the 12th Meeting of the German-South African Bi-National Commission, Berlin, Germany, 13 April 2026 | SA News

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On 13 April 2026, Germany and South Africa held the 12th Meeting of the German-South African Bi-National Commission (BNC), the key instrument for the development of the German-South African bilateral relationship. The 12th meeting marks the 30th anniversary of the BNC, which was founded in 1996 by South African President Nelson Mandela and German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and whose first meeting was held in Bonn in 1997. Significantly, this latest meeting takes place in the month in which South Africa marks 32 years of being a post-apartheid country, and 37 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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