Riyaz Patel
President Cyril Ramaphosa is in Tanzania on his first State Visit since being elected president in May 2019.
Ramaphosa’s will also lead a delegation to the 39th Southern African Development Community (SADC) Heads of State and Government session scheduled for 17-18 August 2019.
The State Visit comes at the invitation of the President of Tanzania, John Magufuli.
The two leaders are expected to discuss a range of bilateral, continental and global issues, and to reaffirm the commitment and cooperation between Pretoria and Dar es Salaam.
President Ramaphosa will also visit the town of Morogoro west of the capital to offer his condolences in person following last weekend’s fuel tanker explosion that claimed more than 70 lives.
He said the tragedy at Morogoro is shared by South Africans for whom the site holds great significance as the first National Consultative Conference of the ANC convened there 50 years ago
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