Southern Africa
South Africa
130 recorded engagements by South Africa's heads of state, heads of government and foreign ministers, 1990–2025.
At a glance
Between 1990 and 2025, South Africa's leaders recorded 130 engagements: 122 in-person visits, 0 phone calls and 8 video conferences. Activity peaked in 2022, with 9 engagements that year. The most frequent destination was United States of America (51 engagements), followed by China and United Kingdom. Diplomacy and Foreign Relations was the most common topic, present in 85% of engagements. 1 engagements produced a signed agreement, and 98 took place at multilateral summits. The most active official on record is Cyril Ramaphosa (Deputy President), with 38 engagements between 2015 and 2025.
Activity by year
Every engagement recorded for South Africa, 1990–2025. Hover a bar for the exact count.
Most-visited countries
Discussion topics
Cite this profile
Ozturk, Y., Atabas, H., Guler, E., Duyar, B., & Yucel, R. (2026). Leaders' Visits & Agreements Database [Data set]. Africa Foundation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22255254 [South Africa country profile. Accessed 2 September 2026. https://lead-database.netlify.app/country/south-africa.html]
Every part of the site quotes this same reference; other formats (MLA, Chicago, Harvard, BibTeX) are on the About page, which also describes the coding rules and sources. Figures here were generated from the dataset on 2026-09-02 and describe outbound engagements by South Africa's own officials.