{"id":57024,"date":"2026-01-30T16:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/south-africa-declares-israeli-charge-d-affaires-persona-non-grata\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T16:07:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T16:07:01","slug":"south-africa-declares-israeli-charge-d-affaires-persona-non-grata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/south-africa-declares-israeli-charge-d-affaires-persona-non-grata\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa declares Israeli charge d&#8217;affaires persona non grata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DIRCO said the decision follows &#8220;a series of unacceptable violations of diplomatic norms and practice&#8221; by Seidman, which it described as posing &#8220;a direct challenge to South Africa&#8217;s sovereignty.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These violations include the repeated use of official Israeli social media platforms to launch insulting attacks against President Cyril Ramaphosa, and a deliberate failure to inform DIRCO of purported visits by senior Israeli officials,&#8221; the department said.<\/p>\n<p>DIRCO said Seidman&#8217;s actions were &#8220;a gross abuse of diplomatic privilege and a fundamental breach of the Vienna Convention,&#8221; adding that they have systematically undermined the trust and protocols essential for bilateral relations.<\/p>\n<p>It urged the Israeli government to ensure that its future diplomatic conduct respects South Africa and established principles of international engagement.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-101297 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/0001250738_resized_arielseidman121220251022.jpg\" alt=\"South Africa\u2019s Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) on Friday declared Israeli Charge d\u2019Affaires Ariel Seidman persona non grata and ordered him to leave the country within 72 hours.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) on Friday declared Israeli Charge d&#8217;Affaires Ariel Seidman persona non grata and ordered him to leave the country within 72 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000101296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-57024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000101296,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/0001250738_resized_arielseidman121220251022.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/0001250738_resized_arielseidman121220251022.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/0001250738_resized_arielseidman121220251022.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/0001250738_resized_arielseidman121220251022.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/0001250738_resized_arielseidman121220251022.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/0001250738_resized_arielseidman121220251022.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000101296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57024"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=57024"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=57024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}