Afrigather South African President Cyril Ramaphosa welcomed the Dutch royal couple, King Willem-Alexander and his spouse Queen Máxima of the Netherlands on the Union Buildings in Pretoria on Thursday.
Their majesties had been on a state go to on the invitation of the president to concentrate on strengthening the ties and partnership between the Netherlands and South Africa.
Whereas reflecting on the colonial historical past between the 2 nations, Ramaphosa took the chance to talk on the continuing battle between Russia and the Ukraine, in addition to the Israel-Hamas battle that has left 1000’s lifeless and plenty of extra wounded.
“Our resolve to construct a peaceable, equal future is being sorely examined and the place reconciliation and therapeutic is sorely wanted,” Ramaphosa stated.
His majesty King Willem-Alexander recommended South Africa’s preventing spirit to finish apartheid and the nation’s dedication to reconciliation following the tip of Dutch colonial rule in 1795.
“After colonial ties had been severed, a way of kinship remained however it wasn’t till the Nineteen Sixties {that a} broad consciousness of injustice in the direction of the black inhabitants emerged within the Netherlands,” he stated.
The royal couple will conclude their journey with a go to to Cape City, the place they are going to meet the town’s mayor, Geordin Hill-Lewis, and the premier, Alan Winde.
