Poland in South Africa

The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Pretoria participated for the second time in the European Film Festival 2025 in Lesotho. The festival is a joint venture of the Delegation of the European Union in Maseru, the Alliance Française du Maseru, and EU Member States. On 31 October 2025, Poland presented the film "Peasants" directed by Dorota Welchman and Hugh Welchman at the Lesotho National University in Roma.

The Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Pretoria announces a tender for the sale of a movable asset, i.e. a Chrysler Grand Voyager passenger car, registration number D BBG 104D - year 2010

The opening ceremony of the European Film Festival 2025 took place in Pretoria on 8 October 2025. The French Ambassador delivered a keynote address.

The official opening of the exhibition "Sweet Home Sweet. A Story of Survival, Memory, and Returns" will take place at the Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre on 16 October 2025 at 6:00 PM.

The Consular Section of the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Pretoria would like to inform you about a consular outreach in Cape Town, which will take place from November 6-8, 2025, at the Lagoon Beach Hotel & Spa (1 Lagoon Gate Drive, Lagoon Beach, Cape Town, 7441).

Please be informed that due to the public holidays the Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Pretoria will be closed on 10.11.2025 and 11.11.2025.

The ceremonial unveiling of a monument commemorating Polish children and their adult guardians who found safe refuge in Oudtshoorn in 1943 took place on 24 September 2025. The delegation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was led by Undersecretary of State, Ms. Henryka Mościcka-Dendys, and the Institute of National Remembrance was represented by the Vice-President of the Institute of National Remembrance, Dr. Mateusz Szpytma.

The European Film Festival 2025 (EUFF) will take place in South Africa from October 9-19, 2025. Screenings will take place in Johannesburg at the Bioscope and Nu Metro Hyde Park cinemas, and in Cape Town at The Labia cinema.

The 81st anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising and the Warsaw Flights was commemorated in Johannesburg at the Katyn Monument on September 6, 2025.

Please be informed that due to the public holidays the Embassy of the Republic of Poland and Consular Section in Pretoria will be closed on 24 September 2025.