The high commissioner of India to South Africa is the chief diplomatic representative of India to South Africa, housed in the Indian High Commission located at 852, Francis Baard Street, Arcadia 0083, Pretoria, South Africa. The high commissioner is concurrently accredited to Lesotho.
The high commission is headed by the High Commissioner. while the Consulates General located in Cape Town, Durban and Johannesburg are headed by a Consul General.
List of Indian heads of mission
To Union of South Africa
Agents of the Government of India S. No. Name Entered office Left office1V. S. Srinivasa Sastri192719292Kurma Venkata Reddi Naidu192919323Kunwar Maharaj Singh193219354Sir Syed Raza Ali193519385Sir Benegal Rama Rau19381941
High Commissioners of India S. No. Name Entered office Left office1Sir Benegal Rama Rau194119412Sir Shafa'at Ahmad Khan194119453Ramrao Deshmukh194523 May 1946 Interim Government of India severed diplomatic ties with apartheid Government of the Union of South Africa in 1946. India was the first country to do so.
To Republic of South Africa India re-established diplomatic relation in 1993 and appointed high commissioner in 1994.
The following people have served as High Commissioners to South Africa.
S. No. Name Entered office Left office 1 Madhav Keshav Mangalmurti 18 July 1994 May 1996 2 Gopalkrishna Gandhi 1 July 1996 7 November 1997 3 Lakshmi Chand Jain 8 December 1997 14 October 1998 4 Harsh Kumar Bhasin 23 November 1998 14 November 2000 5 Shiv Shankar Mukherjee 25 November 2000 23 September 2004 6 Santosh Kumar 2 November 2004 28 May 2005 7 Satyabrata Pal 19 July 2005 20 October 2006 8 Rajiv Kumar Bhatia 22 December 2006 30 November 2009 9 Virendra Gupta 8 June 2010 31 August 2014 10 Ruchi Ghanashyam 28 October 2014 13 April 2017 11 Ruchira Kamboj 25 July 2017 15 March 2019 12 Jaideep Sarkar 19 May 2019 31 March 2023 13 Prabhat Kumar 2 April 2023 Incumbent
See also
India–South Africa relations
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