On 22 March 2023, Ms. Busadee Santipitaks, Deputy Permanent Secretary for Foreign Affairs, together with H.E. Ambassador Ntombizodwa Msutukazi Lallie, Acting Deputy Director-General of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation of South Africa, co-chaired the 7th Senior Officials’ Meeting (SOM 7) between Thailand and South Africa at the Sukosol Hotel in Bangkok, along with representatives from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Agriculture of both sides. The meeting discussed ways to push forward bilateral cooperation in various areas including trade, investment, technical cooperation, and public health and exchanged views on regional and international issues of mutual interests.

Later in the afternoon, the Department of South Asian, Middle East and African Affairs in collaboration with the Department of Information, interviewed H.E. Ambassador Ntombizodwa Msutukazi Lallie for the radio programme “From Sahara to Himalayas” to be broadcasted on the Ministry’s Saranrom Radio AM 1575 kHz, saranromradio.mfa.go.th website and the Saranrom Radio Facebook page and Youtube channel.