{"id":41774,"date":"2026-08-07T08:01:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=41774"},"modified":"2026-08-07T08:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T06:02:09","slug":"sa-endorses-rebeca-grynspan-for-un-secretary-general","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-endorses-rebeca-grynspan-for-un-secretary-general\/","title":{"rendered":"SA endorses Rebeca Grynspan for UN Secretary-General"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"x_aboveBlackLine\">\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South Africa (SA) has endorsed Costa Rican diplomat Rebeca Grynspan as its preferred candidate to become the next Secretary General of the United Nations (UN).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">This follows International Relations and Co-operation Minister Ronald Lamola&#8217;s remarks that SA will back a candidate from Latin America, in keeping with the UN&#8217;s tradition of regional rotation, while also supporting the election of the organisation&#8217;s first female Secretary General.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Lamola made the announcement during a recent media briefing in SA&#8217;s foreign policy priorities and preparations for the upcoming Southern African Development Community (SADC) Summit and confirmed Graynspan&#8217;s visit to SA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">This comes as the term of the current UN Secretary-General, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, comes to an end in September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">His departure has triggered the process to elect a new UN Chief, with candidates stepping up diplomatic engagements to secure the backing of member states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">SA has now indicated that it will support a candidate from Latin America, in line with the UN&#8217;s tradition of regional rotation, while also backing the election of the organisation&#8217;s first female Secretary-General.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":41775,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-41774","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Costa Rican diplomat Rebeca Grynspan","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41774","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\/41774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41776,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/41774\/revisions\/41776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=41774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}