Embassy of Serbia in Pretoria organized a basketball tournament on 7 July in honor of 100th anniversary of birth of famous President of South Africa Nelson Mandela, an honorary citizen of Belgrade. The participants in the tournament included the host team, Serbian Embassy, as well members of "White Eagle" club from Johannesburg, and teams from EU, USA, Cuba, Zimbabwe and the Foreign Ministry of the Republic of South Africa, which won.

Our Embassy invited diplomatic and international organizations representatives to participate under the motto, citing Mandela's own words "Sport has the power to change the world". Special ceremony to present the award and evoke the memory of Nelson Mandela will be held subsequently.



The news on the basketball tournament and statement of Serbian Ambassador Bozin Nikolic was carried in Diplomatic Society magazine, distributed among all diplomatic and consular missions, state institutions and business circles.