30 years of diplomatic relations
 |  | Joint Declaration on the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations between the Republic of South Africa and the Russian Federation
28 February 1992
Source: Russian Foreign Ministry | |
 | South Africa’s President Frederik Willem de Klerk and Russia’s first Ambassador to South Africa Yevgeny Gusarov at a credentials ceremony, Pretoria
9 December 1992
Source: Russian Foreign Ministry | ||
 | A rally dedicated to South African Women’s Day, Moscow Metro Depot ‘Izmaylovskaya.’ Opening remarks by deputy head of Moscow Metro Directorate Zinaida Troitskaya
1 August 1967
Author: Alexander Cheprunov Source: RIA Novosti | ||
 | 12th World Festival of Youth and Students, Moscow (Jul 27 – Aug 3, 1985). Meeting of the Anti-Fascist Centre. Member of the African National Congress Ntilontino Malambo (South Africa) speaking at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys
29 July 1985
Author: Dmitry Donskoy Source: RIA Novosti | ||
 | Meeting between Mikhail Kapitsa (middle), Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies, Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union, and Simon Makana (second from the left), Chief Representative of the ANC Moscow Mission
15 November 1987
Author: Igor Mikhalev Source: RIA Novosti | ||
 | Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu meeting members of the Soviet Afro-Asian Solidarity Committee
17 July 1988
Author: Vyacheslav Runov Source: RIA Novosti | ||
 |  | Exchange of congratulatory messages Congratulatory message of President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev to President of the ANC Nelson Mandela and the latter's reply
1991
Source: Russian Foreign Ministry | |
 | South Africa’s President Frederik Willem de Klerk (middle) on a walk with his spouse at the Red Square, Moscow, during the state visit to Russia
1 June 1992
Author: Yury Abramochkin Source: RIA Novosti | ||
 | South Africa’s President Nelson Mandela and Russia’s President Boris Yeltsin, meeting in Kremlin, Moscow
29 April 1999
Author: Vladimir Rodionov Source: RIA Novosti | ||
 | Meeting between Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and South Africa’s President Thabo Mbeki, Gleneagles
July 2005
Source: Russian Foreign Ministry | ||
 | Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at Cape Point, Cape Peninsula
6 September 2006
Author: Vladimir Rodionov Source: RIA Novosti | ||
 | Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma at the signing of bilateral agreements, Durban
Author: Alexey Druzhinin Source: RIA Novosti | ||
 | Russia’s President Vladimir Putin writing an entry in a book of condolences dedicated to the death of Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s Embassy in Moscow
9 December 2013
Author: Mikhail Klementyev Source: RIA Novosti | ||
 | Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and South Africa’s Ambassador to Russia Nomasonto Maria Sibanda-Thusi at a credentials ceremony, Grand Kremlin Palace, Moscow
28 May 2015
Author: Alexey Druzhinin Source: RIA Novosti | ||
 | South Africa’s Minister of Science and Technology Naledi Pandor and Ambassador to Russia Nomasonto Maria Sibanda-Thusi at the BRICS Science, Technology and Innovation Ministerial Meeting
28 October 2015
Author: Alexey Filippov Source: BRICS Photohost Agency Credit: RIA Novosti | ||
 | South Africa’s parliamentary delegation at a session of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (Senate), Moscow
Source: Press service of Russia's Federation Council Credit: RIA Novosti | ||
 | South Africa’s former President Thabo Mbeki participating in the final plenary session of the 13th annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club in Sochi
27 October 2016
Author: Maxim Blinov Source: RIA Novosti | ||
 | Choir of South African students of the People’s Friendship University (RUDN) at the opening ceremony of an exhibition dedicated to the 25th anniversary of establishing diplomatic relations between Russia and South Africa, Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Moscow
7 March 2017
Author: Vitaly Belousov Source: RIA Novosti | ||
 | BRICS leaders: President of the People’s Republic of China Xi Jinping,
26 July 2018
Author: Alexey Nikolsky Source: RIA Novosti | ||
 | Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa at the 10th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg
26 July 2018
Author: Alexey Nikolsky Source: RIA Novosti | ||
 | Meeting between Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Lindiwe Sisulu,
Author: Alexey Kudenko Source: RIA Novosti | ||
 | Meeting between Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and South Africa’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Naledi Pandor, Rio de Janeiro
26 July 2019
Author: Alexander Shcherbak Source: POOL Credit: RIA Novosti | ||
 | Sergey Ryabkov (right), Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister, and Anil Sooklal, South Africa’s Deputy Director General of Asia and the Middle East, Department of International Relations and Cooperation, after the 1st BRICS Sherpas' and Sous Sherpas' Meeting, Saint Petersburg
13 February 2020
Author: Alexey Danichev Source: BRICS Photohost Agency Credit: RIA Novosti | ||
 | Russia's Ambassador to South Africa Ilya Rogachev and South Africa's Minister of Sports, Arts and Culture Nathi Mthethwa at Russian section of the Wall of Names in 'Freedom Park,' Pretoria
23 March 2021 | ||