Lithuania's Cabinet has on Wednesday backed the appointment of career diplomat Dainius Junevicius as the country's ambassador to the Republic of South Africa.
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In the face of fierce virus spread and massive self-isolation, everyone must remain positive. That's why Talia Shaban, Erudito Licejus International First Grade Teacher, decided to send a personal supporting message to all families.
On the night to Tuesday, one new coronavirus (COVID-19) case was confirmed in Lithuania. Totally it adds to 18 cases in Lithuania so far.
Šeštadienio popietė, Pietų Afrikos mieste Johanesburge jauniausias šalyje didžėjus ruošiasi linksminti žmones koncerte po atviru dangumi. Oratilwe Hlongwane, arba DJ Arch jaunesnysis, mėgsta groti house stiliaus muziką gerbėjams, dažnai groja beveik vien vaikų auditorijoms. Šešerių metų berniukas mi...
“South Africa is more Litvak than Lithuania itself,” Markas Zingeris, the Lithuanian playwright and novelist once remarked. And, as one of very few members of Lithuania’s Jewish community to remain in the country, he would know. The vast majority of Lithuanian Jews have found good reason to leave at...
As a Cape Town born Jew, my life has come full circle. Although I was born after his death, my zeida, Rabbi Shimon Ze’ev Aysenberg, played an indelible influence in my life. My father, Isaac Eisenberg, born in a stable in Mogilov, Belarus, in 1922, a medical doctor and writer, spent his life interpr...
Several hundred applications for Lithuanian citizenship have already been approved since the country amended the law last June to ease the rules for descendants of Jews who left Lithuania in the interwar period to apply for a Lithuanian passport.
August 29th, 2016, has become truly important day for Lithuanian people, for Israel, and for all of us who does not know the past term for Holocaust. On that day, a small Lithuanian town of Moletai has become a scene of tangible and penetrating lesson on the Shoah. It was a rare event - unpretending...
Following on from Hollywood star Sean Penn, it now appears that US president Barack Obama also has family links to Lithuania.
Amid complaints from Lithuanian Jewish Community representatives and Litvaks living in Israel and South Africa, at least two Lithuanian parliamentary committees are planning to look into the reasons why citizenship restoration applications from Jews who left the country in the interwar period and th...
On April 3, the Panama Papers hit media outlets around the world, and the fallout was swift.
Some Jews in Israel and the Republic of South Africa who left Lithuania between the two world wars and their descendants have been applying to have their Lithuanian citizenship restored, but receiving a negative answer.
In a series about those remarkable individuals who promote Lithuania's image abroad and build the country’s brand around the world, Paul Berman, Lithuania’s Honorary Consul in South Africa, talks about his work for Lithuania.
A sculpture depicting India's independence leader Mahatma Gandhi and his Jewish-Lithuanian architect friend Hermann Kallenbach was unveiled in the town of Rusnė in western Lithuania on Friday.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė on Wednesday handed letters of credence to Sigutė Jakštonytė, the country's first ambassador to the Republic of South Africa.
The Government of Lithuania on Friday approved candidates for three ambassadorial positions.
Pasaulis sveikina šių metų grožio konkurso „Mis Pasaulis“ nugalėtoją „Mis Pietų Afrika“ Rolene Strauss. 22 metų medicinos studentei grožio karalienės karūna buvo uždėta sekmadienį, gruodžio 14 dieną, Londone vykusio finalo metu. Antoje vietoje liko „Mis Vengrija“ Edina Kulcsar, o trečioje – „Mis JAV...
Lithuanian embassy in Pretoria, the South African Republic, could be opened in November. The related draft decree was prepared by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Lithuania plans to open an embassy in the Republic of South Africa in November.
Earlier this week the media honoured Nadine Gordimer, a Nobel and Man Booker prize winning novelist with a wealth of obituaries. Gordimer died at the age of 90 on 13 July in her native South Africa. Reverent fans and curious new readers peppered social networks with quotations highlighting her defen...
