NOMINEE

 

NATIONAL VICE PRESIDENT

ANTON LOUBSER

Professional status

Retired diplomat -served in the RSA Dept of Foreign Affairs from 1958 – 2000

Academic qualifications

B Com (Univ Stellenbosch)

MA Internat Politics (Univ Pretoria)

LLB (Unisa)

Career

1957 – Ceres Fruit Growers, then Ceres Municipality, subsequently AE&CI, Somerset West

August 1958 – Joined the Dept of Foreign Affairs as a ‘Cadet’

1961 – 3rd Secretary, Paris;  1965 – 2^nd Secretary (Protocol), Pretoria

1970 – Counsellor, Brussels and Luxembourg

1976 – Counsellor (Francophone and North Africa Section), Pretoria

1980 – Minister Plenipotentiary, Paris;  1984 – Chief of Protocol, Pretoria

1986 – Ambassador to Israel;  1988 – Consul General, Copenhagen

1990 – Ambassador to Denmark

1991-2000  Director (Marketing) Pretoria, dealing with communication strategies, foreign guests’ programmes, international shows and exhibitions, culture and sport liaison, audiovisual and publications.   During this period, in 1996 and 1998, he was asked also to take charge as Chief of Protocol;  December 2000 – Retired.

Honorary official function

Since 2004, Honorary Consul General of the Republic of San Marino

Membership

Huguenot Society of SA

Orde van den Prince, Pretoria (a cultural organisation for the vindication of the Dutch language in the world with head office in Antwerp

Flemish-South African Cultural Foundation, Pretoria

Club Constance (a SA – French Friendship Club)

Association of Arts Pretoria

National President of SANAVA since 2004

Honorary Adviser on international affairs of SANAVA and Trustee of SANAVA’s Cité des Arts Trust and Cité Artists’ Trust (relating to three art studios in the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France (during the early 1980s, while serving as Minister at the SA Embassy in Paris, he alerted the SA Arts Association that studios were available in the Cité, and assisted with the procurement thereof)

Member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Art (IAA), representing the Africa Region since 2005.

Publications

Thesis for MA International Politics (1983):  ‘The foreign policy of France with regard to Francophone Africa south of the Sahara, 1974 – 1979’

Final module for LLB degree (2003):  ‘The Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, 1961, with regard to immovable property’

Co-author of a dictionary on Political and Related Terminology, compiled by a Committee operating under the auspices of the Dept of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology