Letter, written in Afrikaans, from the South African Embassy in France to the Department of Foreign Affairs, South Africa, regarding President Samora Machel's request for increased Cuban troops in Mozambique.
Archive record
Letter from the South African Embassy, Paris, to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Cape Town

- Origin date
- 12 May 1950
- Updated
- 18 Nov 2025

South African History Online. (2016, February 22). Letter from the South African Embassy, Paris, to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Cape Town. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/R-0113306
South African History Online (2016) 'Letter from the South African Embassy, Paris, to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Cape Town', South African History Online, 22 February. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/R-0113306 (Accessed: 21 July 2026).
South African History Online, Letter from the South African Embassy, Paris, to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Cape Town [website], https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/R-0113306, (accessed 21 July 2026).
"Letter from the South African Embassy, Paris, to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Cape Town." South African History Online, 22 Feb. 2016, https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/R-0113306. Accessed 21 July 2026.
South African History Online. "Letter from the South African Embassy, Paris, to the Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Cape Town." South African History Online. February 22, 2016. https://sahistory.org.za/nso/ref/R-0113306.
Further reading
DISA Archive
Samora Machel
The death of Samora Machel
Letter from Barney Pityana to Neville Curtis
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