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South Africa Elected to UN Security Council for 2019-20

South Africa Elected to UN Security Council for 2019-20

(Bloomberg) -- United Nations General Assembly elected South Africa to serve on the UN Security Council for the term 2019-20 as a non-permanent member.

This will be the third time that South Africa will be serving on the council since the end of white-minority apartheid rule in 1994, the country’s presidency said in emailed statement Friday.

To contact the reporter on this story: Hilton Shone in Johannesburg at hshone@bloomberg.net

To contact the editors responsible for this story: Alastair Reed at areed12@bloomberg.net, Ana Monteiro, Jacqueline Mackenzie

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