SA sends new Rwanda envoy after ‘prostitute’ jibe

Rwanda has accepted the incoming South African High Commissioner, a post which stood empty for two years because of frosty relations.

Mandisi Bongani Mabuto Mpahlwa was received by Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Vincent Biruta on Thursday.

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The former trade minister follows George Nkosinati Twala who was recalled in December 2018, after Rwanda’s then-Deputy Foreign Minister Olivier Nduhungirehe directed “insulting” comments at South Africa’s Lindiwe Sisulu.

A headline on a Rwandan pro-government news website also called Ms Sisulu a “prostitute”, after her meeting with an exiled former chief of staff of the Rwandan army, Lt Gen Kayumba Nyamwasa.