Take action

Each action takes a minute or two. Pick one, add your own words, and send it from your own email or WhatsApp. We never see what you write.

• Ask DIRCO for SA's position

  Two minutes. Email DIRCO and ask how the US embargo of Cuba affects South African companies and banks, and what the government's position is.

  • 2 minutes
  • To: Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO)

• Ask your MP to keep SA backing Cuba

  Two minutes. Ask your MP to raise South Africa's UN position on the US embargo of Cuba with Parliament's international relations committee.

  • 2 minutes
  • To: Your Member of Parliament

• Post the card to your story

  One minute. Save our plain-text summary card, post it to your story, and add a line of your own.

  • 1 minute
  • To: Your Instagram story

• Share SA and Cuba in 60 seconds

  One minute. Send our short explainer to three people on WhatsApp, with a line from you.

  • 1 minute
  • To: Three people you know

• Write a letter to the editor

  Two minutes. A letter of under 150 words for a South African newspaper, about the UN vote on the embargo.

  • 2 minutes
  • To: Letters to the editor (South African newspapers)

• Write to the US Embassy

  A short letter, as a South African, asking the US Embassy to explain how the Cuba embargo applies to South African companies and banks.

  • 2 minutes
  • To: U.S. Embassy Pretoria