{"id":252664,"date":"2023-03-12T13:13:48","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T11:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/president-of-tanzania-to-pay-state-visit-to-sa\/"},"modified":"2023-03-12T13:13:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T11:13:48","slug":"president-of-tanzania-to-pay-state-visit-to-sa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/president-of-tanzania-to-pay-state-visit-to-sa\/","title":{"rendered":"President of Tanzania to pay State Visit to SA"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan, will pay a State Visit to South Africa this week at the invitation of President Cyril Ramaphosa.<\/p>\n

Thursday\u2019s State Visit will crown the 2nd Session of the South Africa-Tanzania Bi-National Commission (BNC).<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Bi-National Commission is a platform for strengthening cooperation especially in areas such as trade and investment, infrastructure, transport, energy, water, science and innovation, education, defence, agriculture, environment, health, and culture, among others,\u201d the Presidency said on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Tanzania is one of South Africa\u2019s foremost trading partners on the continent.<\/p>\n

\u201cSouth Africa wishes to see an increase in trade and investment and broader economic development between the two countries. To this end, total trade between South Africa and Tanzania increased from R6.89 billion in 2021 to R8.71 billion in 2022.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe strong economic ties are evidenced by the presence of more than 250 South African companies in diverse sectors in Tanzania,\u201d the Presidency said.<\/p>\n

The BNC comprises four committees: Political and Diplomatic; Defence and Security; Economic Affairs, and Social and Cultural Affairs.<\/p>\n

South Africa and Tanzania enjoy deep historical relations arising from Tanzania\u2019s solidarity with South Africa\u2019s liberation struggle.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ruling party in Tanzania, Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM), supported the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in the struggle against apartheid.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese ties culminated in the establishment of official diplomatic relations when South Africa achieved freedom in 1994 and have since evolved into excellent political, economic, and social relations,\u201d the Presidency said.<\/p>\n

The programme of the Heads of State and Government will be preceded by meetings of senior officials on Monday and Tuesday.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, a meeting by the Ministerial Bi-National Commission on the Senior Officials will be held.<\/p>\n

These engagements will take place at the Department of International Relations and Cooperation\u2019s OR Tambo headquarters in Pretoria.<\/p>\n

On the margins of the State Visit and the BNC, a Business Forum will take place under the theme: \u201cForging a New Deal between South Africa and Tanzania Towards High Levels of Trade and Investment\u201d.<\/p>\n

The forum will focus on agriculture, agro-processing, oil and gas, mining and infrastructure development.<\/p>\n

President Ramaphosa and President Hassan are expected to address a plenary session of the Business Forum. \u2013 SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan, will pay a State Visit to South Africa this week at the invitation of President Cyril Ramaphosa. Thursday\u2019s State Visit will crown the 2nd Session of the South Africa-Tanzania Bi-National Commission (BNC). \u201cThe Bi-National Commission is a platform for strengthening cooperation especially in areas such as trade and investment, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-252664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-south-africa","8":"tag-sanews","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/president-of-tanzania-to-pay-state-visit-to-sa.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}