"Doing Business with South Africa"

About H.E. Welile A.W. Nhlapo

Prior to his appointment as South African Ambassador to the United States in September 2007, Amb. Nhlapo had served as South Africa’s Ambassador to Ethiopia and Permanent Representative to the Organization of African Unity and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa since 1995. During his term in Addis Ababa, he also served as South Africa’s Non-Resident Ambassador to Djibouti, Eritrea and Sudan. In 1997 he was appointed as South Africa’s Special Envoy on Burundi. He also served as the ANC Chief Representative in Botswana from 1991 to 1993 before being appointed as Head of the Political Section in the ANC Secretary-General’s office in Shell House. He later joined the ANC International Affairs Department. In 1994 he joined the Department of Foreign Affairs. He was part of the South African delegation to the United Nations General Assembly in New York when South Africa was readmitted to the world body in 1994. Most recently he served as Director in the Africa Division in the Department of Political Affairs at the United Nations.