I get that many South African are grateful for the assistance of the USSR in the struggle against apartheid. But Ukraine was as much a part of USSR as Russia. So both countries are friends of 🇿🇦 - the simple question is now: who is the military aggressor assaulting a free nation?
Political cooperation in real life! The battery of our bus died as Danish Parliamentary Committee on Taxation left a meeting on state capture. Only one thing to do! Politicians from the Labour Party (S) and the Liberals (V) + one ambassador successfully flexed some muscle😄💪🇩🇰🇿🇦
Dear friends 🤗 Today is my last day as Ambassador of Denmark🇩🇰 to 🇿🇦🇦🇴🇧🇼🇸🇿🇱🇸🇲🇿🇳🇦🇿🇲🇿🇼 What an incredible experience. I am eternally grateful to all of you for making these 5 years so rewarding!🙏 I will be succeeded by the great Elsebeth. Please give her a warm Mzansi welcome🙌
Figured I’d better hit the ground running - being the successor of Tobias 😅 Cannot wait to explore this great country and strengthen our bilateral relations 🇿🇦🤝🇩🇰
On vaccine scepticism😉 When I was in Denmark in December the lines to PCR testing were massiv. Today as I get my PCR test to fly home to
#SouthAfrica
the test center looks like this👇And why? Because 75% of all Danes have been vaccinated and it’s working. Go get the jab people🤗
Denmark is now opening up for business, work and study travels✈️ from
#SouthAfrica
🇿🇦 and Southern Africa. Close relatives to persons resident in Denmark are now able to visit their loved ones🇩🇰👩🏽🤝👨🏾Read about the new regulations: and:
I am so saddened to learn that Ambassador
@ZindziMandela
has passed away. Zindzi was a dear colleague working tirelessly and with a smile to nurture and grow the strong friendship between
#SouthAfrica
🇿🇦 and
#Denmark
🇩🇰My deep condolence to the Mandela family!
@DIRCO_ZA
@DanishMFA
As we go into the weekend I can’t help but miss this fun, wild and energetic side of
#SouthAfrica
🇿🇦❤️ Ahh…to party the Mzanzi way 🙌😁 But for now safety is paramount and I wish everyone peaceful days with your loved ones…p.s. there a no rules against dancing in the kitchen💃🏽🕺🏼
Denmark opens its largest onshore wind farm🌬️🌱🇩🇰
Wind & solar energy make up 50 per cent of Denmark's total electricity production. And now DK is even closer to creating a fossil-free society. The new park is set to generate power for 65,000 households.
Good morning
#SouthAfrica
🇿🇦Warming up to our partnership event this morning with
@SaveChildrenSA
!! 🎼🤗❤️🎉 Join the music and the fight for the children of this beautiful country ✊
Today 🇩🇰Embassy said farewell to a number of great colleagues leaving for new adventures! Thank you for your excellent service to grow the warm relationship between
#SouthAfrica
and
#Denmark
🇩🇰🤝🇿🇦In true
#Mzansi
style we made a grand
#braai
and in order not to cry we danced💃🏿🕺🏼😁
Can’t help but thinking that there is too much anxiety about the political art of governing through coalitions. It’s been the primary way in Denmark since the dawn of democracy 100+ years ago. You count to 50%, negotiate a common platform of priorities and go to work.
The beauty of Pretoria - Jacaranda City - this time of year is just breathtaking!🙌🇿🇦 What a blessing to get to experience this purple explosion of nature 5 years in a row 🙏💜
We have put together a playlist of Danish Music that can take you into the weekend😄 50 different Danish artists and a lot of good music 🇩🇰🎸🙌 The Ultimate and Essential Ambassadorial 2021 Playlist of Great Danish Music! Enjoy! 💃🏾🕺
So sorry that
@Springboks
did not walk away as winners, but this was still a magical evening! So much passion, so much fight and one of the most enjoyable audiences in the World🌍🙌 I love the Danish anthem🇩🇰 but the
#SouthAfrican
is just spectacular!🇿🇦
#RSAvNZL
#StrongerTogether
Great Christmas News! 🙏 From midnight today all extraordinary travel restrictions between
#Denmark
🇩🇰 and
#SouthAfrica
🇿🇦 and 9 other African countries due to
#omicron
are lifted and these countries no longer on the “red list”👍🙌
@DIRCO_ZA
Today I handed over a copy of my credentials to the Deputy Chief of State Protocol of 🇿🇦 Thank you for receiving me so soon after arrival in Pretoria! 🙏🏻
Denmark stands on the side of freedom and democracy. We stood with South Africa in the fight against apartheid and following the Russian aggression also violating the UN Charter, Denmark is proud to stand in solidarity with Ukraine🇺🇦✊
#StandWithUkraine
#SlavaUkraini
#Stopthewar
Turning 49 today🫣🎉🇩🇰 In Denmark I would be older than the Prime Minister and most government ministers, but I take comfort in the fact that in accordance with some Southern African standards I am still YOUTH😜🕺🎉
And we succeeded in jump starting the bus greatly helped by a local South African who decided to park his car and help pushing! Halala!
#StrongerTogether
I am very proud to announce that I am now formally ambassador of the Kingdom of Denmark 🇩🇰 to the Kingdom of Lesotho 🇱🇸
A beautiful ceremony with his majesty the king 👑 and a warm welcome from ministers and public officials in the beautiful Mountain Kingdom 🏔️
On my way back to
#SouthAfrica
🇿🇦☀️🤗 after a nice but cold Christmas break in Denmark🇩🇰 But travelling these days is strangely depressing🙁No people. Everything closed and deserted. The excitement of the journey lost to
#COVID
ー19. Hope 2021 will see us all winning again 🌍💥🤛
Final final message from my side before Ambassador Elsebeth takes over this account 😁 - in order to stay in contact with friends from South Africa 🇿🇦 I am opening a personal Twitter/X account. Please keep in contact on
@TobiasERehfeld
🤗🎉🇩🇰😎
Last week the Danish Embassy 🇩🇰provided four 10.000 ltr water tanks to
#Soshanguve
informal settlement in
#Tshwane
. People here has little access to water making daily life difficult and fighting
#Covid19inSA
almost impossible. Hopefully the tanks will help🙏
@DWS_RSA
@CityTshwane
As my posting to
#SouthAfrica
too quickly comes to it’s conclusion every day becomes more emotional. And it’s not made easier by my wonderful colleagues at the Embassy that on a chilly Wednesday surprise me and makes my heart swell with such a beautiful song in Danish🙏❤️🥲🤗🇿🇦🇩🇰
The recent assassination attempts on Eskom CEO De Reuyter and Fort Hare VC Prof Buhlungu are shocking and unacceptable. Cowardly mafia methods against moral leaders taking a stand against corruption and lawlessness. I hope justice will be swift!
One of the few but precious sunny☀️ winter days❄️ on Denmark’s 🇩🇰 West coast. And just out there in the stormy North Sea, years of oil exploration is rapidly being replaced by enormous offshore wind farms ensuring that more than 50% of Danish electricity is cheap wind power💨⚡️💥
Hello
#SouthAfrica
! It is a wonderful honour to be the new Danish Ambassador-designate to your beautiful country. Thank you for receiving me and my family with such great hospitality. I look forward to further deepening the cooperation and friendship between our nations 🇩🇰🇿🇦
Look at this map! Not just any map but a real treasure map 🗺 to find gold💰😁 Or more precisely a
#wind
resource map of
#SouthAfrica
build in partnership between Danish🇩🇰 and South African🇿🇦 scientists to find the best, greenest and cheapest energy across the country 💨🌱🌍✊
Nothing like a great flyby to lift the spirit even higher at an already wonderful day of Presidential Inauguration 2019 in South Africa
@DIRCO_ZA
@CyrilRamaphosa
#Inauguration2019
Good work well done!! 🇿🇦👍🎉
🇩🇰 Her Excellency
Ms Elsebeth Søndergaard, Ambassador-Designate of Kingdom of Denmark, presents her Letter of Credence to His Excellency President
@CyrilRamaphosa
at the Sefako Makgatho Presidential Guesthouse in Tshwane.
#LettersofCredence
#BetterAfricaBetterWorld
🌍
It’s been a good leave when you struggle to remember the password for your work station🏝️🔐🤨😁 But now ready and fired🔥 up to grow the already strong💪 relationship between
#SouthAfrica
and
#Denmark
in 2023🇿🇦🤝🇩🇰 My posting will come to an end this year so no time to waste🏃♂️🙌
Thank you President
@CyrilRamaphosa
! Level 2 is new opportunities and new responsibilities for all of us and for
#SouthAfrica
🇿🇦The Embassy of Denmark 🇩🇰 stands ready to do our part in reclaiming progress and prosperity for this beautiful country and all its people 🌍✊
Last night at our farewell reception I told a story of Danish parliamentarians cooperating in pushing to kickstart an old, broken down minibus in Pretoria 🚐😁 Here is the video of this fine example of coalition politics that gets things done…😂🤝✊
Political cooperation in real life! The battery of our bus died as Danish Parliamentary Committee on Taxation left a meeting on state capture. Only one thing to do! Politicians from the Labour Party (S) and the Liberals (V) + one ambassador successfully flexed some muscle😄💪🇩🇰🇿🇦
Nelson Mandela in Denmark, 1999:
“It was especially inspiring to know when governments supported us, as the Danish Government did, it reflected the active involvement of millions of men and women, who insisted that we too should enjoy fundamental human rights.”
Today
#Denmark
🇩🇰 was proudly represented at the Memorial for
#DesmondTutu
in Sct Albans Cathedral in Pretoria: “Let’s fight so hard and persistent against injustice and violation of
#humanrights
that we send the Devil seeking political asylum in Heaven”! Thank you The Arch🙏🌈✊
Today I drove between the capitals of
#Maputo
in
#Mozambique
🇲🇿 to my home in
#Tswane
in
#SouthAfrica
🇿🇦🚗😁 Hundreds of kilometres through the grandest of landscapes revealing both the incredible beauty and the pressing challenges at hand. Travelling tells a thousand stories🙏
I have very limited cowboy skills🐴😁 but they are apparently good enough to bring me close to the incredible scenery and tranquility of
#Lesotho
🇱🇸 I can think of no region in the world with so much beauty as the southern part of
#Africa
🙏🌍
PS both horse and rider survived…
Having just spent a week in
#CapeTown
, I am as always in awe of the wine🍷 the ocean🌊 and the sunset🌅 But one thing is clear - and my diplomatic neutrality might be in jeopardy here - the good people of
#Gauteng
are better organised when driving during
#loadshedding
🚗💥🫣😳🤣
Home in
#Denmark
for a few weeks seeing family❤️ and working to further the already strong bilateral relationship to
#SouthAfrica
🇩🇰🤝🇿🇦 Great political and commercial interest in growing together!✊🙏 Winter has come ❄️ but we Danes compensate with plenty of uplifting lights🎄😄
In Denmark 🇩🇰 to talk about the outcome of the free, fair and peaceful democratic elections 🗳️ in South Africa 🇿🇦
- and about what the future might bring 🏛️
No fire will bring down
#SouthAfrica
’s
#democracy
🔥 It’s too valuable. Too important. Too hard fought for💥🤛✊Happy for the 4th time to be on my way to packed
#SONA
week to meet great mix of politicians, business, analysts, academics, journalists, activists and much more 🇩🇰🤝🇿🇦
Our Embassy’s move to solar energy follows
#Denmark
’s Green Vision🇩🇰🌱We were once entirely dependent on imported fossil fuels⛽️ but reached 50% reliance on
#renewables
(47% wind🌬, 3% solar☀️) in 2019🎉More about our journey towards carbon neutral here🌍:
I am so proud of my team at the Embassy of Denmark🇩🇰 in
#SouthAfrica
🇿🇦🙏 We’ve just been announced winners🏆 of
@DanishMFA
#Sustainability
Award 2021🌍 for our “innovative and proactive” efforts to go
#green
🌱 “showing the path towards a greener future in the foreign service!😎✊
Such sad news! Even as a boy 10.000 km from
#SouthAfrica
I cherished Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He brought hope, humanity and hard truths into the world. He showed that the shortest distance between two people is a smile. My deep condolences to the family🙏
We are a very football happy Embassy of Denmark in
#SouthAfrica
😁🇿🇦⚽️🇩🇰 so it’s a great joy to welcome our Danish compatriot Flemming
@BergMasandawana
- the new Sporting Director in
#MamelodiSundowns
. Hopefully Flemming can teach us a few tricks before the
#Nordic
Cup next month!
What an incredible day! The joint visit of the Prime Ministers of
#Denmark
and
#Netherlands
to President
@CyrilRamaphosa
has been a tremendous success! Deep and very friendly discussions🙏 New areas of cooperation agreed🤝 New significant investments announced👏🇩🇰🇿🇦🇳🇱
@DIRCO_ZA
Sydafrikas præsident,
@CyrilRamaphosa
, har nu budt velkommen til statsminister Mette Frederiksen og Nederlandenes premierminister Rutte. Foruden arbejdet med den grønne omstilling, skal de også diskutere geopolitik, herunder de udfordringer, som krigen i Ukraine har skabt.
This is excellent! A potential game-changer in solidly putting
#SouthAfrica
on the path to green transition 🌱 but also to release huge domestic and international investments generating jobs and economic growth🇿🇦✊👏 Looking forward to sharing this news with Danish🇩🇰 investors!👍
“Following an extensive public consultation and a significant amount of technical work undertaken by the
@DMRE_ZA
, we will be amending Schedule 2 of the Electricity Regulation Act to increase the NERSA licensing threshold for embedded generation projects from 1 MW to 100 MW.”
@Kgosientsho_R
Congratulations Minister Ramakgopa 🙏 The Embassy of Denmark 🇩🇰 looks forward to continuing our cooperation and technical partnership with South Africa in the energy sector including through technology and by bringing in Danish investors🇩🇰🤝🇿🇦
Cheering for TWO countries during this year’s Olympic Games 📣✌️
South Africa 🇿🇦 and Denmark 🇩🇰
(Watching the opening ceremony at a small computer at a bed & breakfast in Mpumalanga 😆)
#Denmark
has for decades worked in solidarity with the people of
#Zimbabwe
🇩🇰🤝🇿🇼 Today I was fortunate to meet strong Zimbabwean women and men working hard to support their families under difficult circumstances. Proud to assist with partners
@DanChurchAid
,
@WFP
and
#TeamEurope
No fire🔥 will keep the
@EUinSA
ambassadors from watching President
@CyrilRamaphosa
’s
#SONA
in our firm support of the
#SouthAfrican
#democracy
💥🤛✊ The seating is not as good and we miss our friends in the 🇿🇦 Parliament but on the bright side - they serve South African wine🍷😁
Am learning:
1781: DK 🇩🇰 first country to establish a representation in SA 🇿🇦
End 1980s: tough 🇩🇰 sanctions on the apartheid regime, and recall of diplomats
August 1990: first ambassador of DK 🇩🇰 to SA 🇿🇦, Peter Bruckner
And he wrote this book 👍🏻
“I have lost my diplomatic neutrality. I just love this country”! The great
@KhayaJames
and I in conversation about the warm relationship between
#Denmark
and
#SouthAfrica
🇩🇰🤗🇿🇦 and about the visit of Denmark’s Prime Minister🙏🙌 via
@YouTube
I am now officially the ambassador of Denmark 🇩🇰 to Zambia 🇿🇲, and I couldn’t be more proud. Amazing and friendly people 💚 I will do my utmost to strengthen our good relations 🙏🏻
#Zambia
-
#Denmark
relations have thrived since before our nation’s independence. Our strong bilateral ties, rooted in
#EconomicDiplomacy
and peace & security, continue to flourish. We welcome the new Danish Ambassador to Zambia, H.E Ms. Elsebeth Sondergaard Krone.🇿🇲🇩🇰
⚡️Exciting news from the Embassy of Denmark 🇩🇰 in South Africa 🇿🇦! ⚡️
(While waiting for elections results ☺️)
Today I unveiled our brand new fully electric Volvo EX30 🌱
Congratulations
#SA
! I did not understand the rules so every moment was terrifying. But we screamed and jumped around. And in the end, I just cried. For
#SouthAfrica
. For the history, for the potential and for the hope we always carry for this country and its wonderful people!
#Mozambique
is not alone in fighting the consequences of
#Idai
. Denmark is right now deploying 12 specialist to the affected areas with equipment that can clean and provide 100.000 litres drinkable water per day 🇲🇿🇩🇰✊