{"id":12634,"date":"2025-06-12T08:38:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T06:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-condemns-use-of-sa-flag-during-former-president-zumas-meeting-with-moroccan-officials\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:25:55","slug":"sa-condemns-use-of-sa-flag-during-former-president-zumas-meeting-with-moroccan-officials","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-condemns-use-of-sa-flag-during-former-president-zumas-meeting-with-moroccan-officials\/","title":{"rendered":"SA condemns use of SA flag during former President Zuma\u2019s meeting with Moroccan officials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This follows a recent meeting between former President Jacob Zuma and Morocco\u2019s Foreign Affairs Minister in Rabat.<\/p>\n<p>Zuma, who now leads the newly formed uMkhonto we Sizwe Party, was pictured alongside Moroccan officials with the SA flag prominently displayed.<\/p>\n<p>DIRCO says the use of official symbols in this context wrongly implies government endorsement and state-level diplomacy, which it insists is not the case.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SA has indicated to the Kingdom of Morocco that the display of national symbols inherently conveys official state endorsement and elevates the perception of the encounter to that of a State-to-State engagement,&#8221; said DIRCO Spokesperson Chrispin Phiri.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This characterisation is inconsistent with established diplomatic protocol, as the participants did not represent the official positions or engagements of the SA State.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC\/ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12635,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-12634","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"South Africa\u2019s (SA) Department of International Relations and Co-operation (DIRCO) has raised strong objections to the use of national symbols, particularly the SA flag in non-State engagements. ||South Africa\u2019s (SA) Department of International Relations and Co-operation (DIRCO) has raised strong objections to the use of national symbols, particularly the SA flag in non-State engagements. ","published_date":"2025-06-19 00:00:00||2025-06-19 00:00:00","news_description":"","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18147,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/12634\/revisions\/18147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=12634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}