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South Africa's Deputy President Shipokosa Paulus Mashatile and External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar connected Tuesday (June 2, 2026) held wide-ranging talks focusing connected boosting bilateral ties successful trade, investments, infrastructure and integer domain.
In the delegation-level meeting, the 2 sides besides agreed that India and South Africa indispensable enactment intimately successful planetary forums.
The South African Deputy President besides met Vice-President C.P. Radhakrishnan and discussed assorted aspects of historical, taste and people-to-people relations betwixt the 2 nations.
Mr. Mashatile, accompanied by his woman Humile Mashatile and a high-powered delegation comprising 5 Ministers and Deputy Ministers, is connected a six-day sojourn to India from May 29 with an purpose to promoting South Africa arsenic a competitory concern destination and to heighten the bilateral commercialized relations.
Following his talks with Mr. Jaishankar, Mr. Mashatile said some sides agreed that South Africa and India should broadbase their ties, particularly successful the economical sectors.
"Pleased to conscionable with Deputy President Shipokosa Paulus Mashatile @PMashatile of the Republic of South Africa on with his delegation successful New Delhi today," the External Affairs Minister said connected 'X'.
"Appreciate his beardown committedness to deepening our longstanding partnership. Discussed opportunities successful trade, investments, MSMEs, integer and infrastructure domains. Also agreed that India and South Africa indispensable enactment intimately successful planetary forums," helium said.
Shortly aft his gathering with the Vice-President, Mr. Mashatile said: "Together, our nations indispensable proceed to leverage connected shared values to beforehand peace, equality, and fairness successful planetary institutions." The South African Deputy President met a fig of businessmen and cardinal governmental figures including Rajya Sabha subordinate Dr Vikramjit Singh Sahney successful the past fewer days.
Dr. Sahney, a erstwhile honorary Consul of South Africa to India, hosted a reception for Mr. Mashatile and his delegation past evening.
The dinner-cum-interaction was attended by elder officials from the Ministry of External Affairs and the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, arsenic good arsenic the secretaries wide of FICCI and CII.
During the interaction, Deputy President Mashatile expressed South Africa's keen tendency to reason the India-SACU (Southern African Customs Union) Free Trade Agreement astatine the earliest.
He besides appreciated India's historical enactment for the anti-apartheid question and highlighted the beardown and enduring bonds betwixt the 2 nations.
Dr. Sahney expressed assurance that the India-SACU Free Trade Agreement would beryllium a crippled changer successful further enhancing commercialized and economical practice betwixt India, South Africa, Mozambique, and different neighbouring countries.
He besides underscored the value of India hosting the BRICS acme successful September this twelvemonth and emphasized the value of South-South practice to further fortify intra-BRICS commercialized and economical partnerships.
India's links with the conflict for state and justness successful South Africa day backmost to the play during which Mahatma Gandhi started his Satyagraha question successful South Africa implicit a period ago.
India and South Africa signed a strategical concern statement successful March 1997 during the sojourn to New Delhi of past President Nelson Mandela.
The twelvemonth 2023 marked 30 years of re-establishment of diplomatic relations with South Africa.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had visited South Africa successful past November to be the G20 Leaders' Summit successful Johannesburg. Modi besides visited South Africa successful August, 2023 to enactment successful the BRICS summit.
There has been an upswing successful India-South Africa ties successful the past fewer years including successful areas of commercialized and investment.
Major Indian exports to South Africa see vehicles and components, transport equipment, drugs and pharmaceuticals, engineering goods, footwear, dyes and intermediates, chemicals, textiles, rice, and gems and jewellery.
The Indian imports from South Africa see gold, steam coal, copper ore, manganese ore, aluminum ingots, and different minerals.
