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The Ressano Garcia border post between Mozambique and South Africa will be open 24 hours a day starting next month.
The South African Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Lindiwe Sisulu, gave a joint press conference with her Mozambican counterpart, José Pacheco, after talks between the two countries’ governments during a visit by President Cyril Ramaphosa to Mozambique on Saturday.
“The Mozambican government requested that by April the Libombos border post in Ressano-Garcia be operational 24 hours, and we promised that this will be done,” Minister Sisulu said.
Without going into details, the head of South African diplomacy said that one of the issues raised by the Mozambican government, and a matter of some urgency, was visa facilitation for Mozambicans living in South Africa.
President Ramaphosa met the Mozambican head of state, Filipe Nyusi, as president of South Africa and in the exercise of his Southern African Development Community (SADC) functions.
During the talks, the two countries’ delegations, led by their respective presidents, reviewed a number of economic and political issues.
Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation José Pacheco said there was clear interest in increasing economic cooperation. “What is already being implemented in the various areas of infrastructure, transport and communications, natural resources, conservation areas and agriculture must be increased. The challenge is to promote mechanisms to accelerate and leverage economic cooperation in a wide variety of areas,” he said.
Minister Pacheco added that the next step would be the holding of the third Bi-national Commission meeting in South Africa, where all matters would be analysed in depth and decisions taken to translate words into concrete actions so that the two countries increasingly progress towards the well-being of their respective populations.
President Ramaphosa visited Maputo as part of a tour of SADC countries after coming to power last month following Jacob Zuma’s departure from office. He arrived in Mozambique after visiting Angola, which currently presides over the region’s defence and security agency, and Botswana, leaving Mozambique for Zimbabwe on Sunday.
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