South Africa, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) will increase their cooperation on industrialisation and infrastructure development as a way of boosting interregional trade under the Tripartite Mechanism. This follows the Extra Ordinary Meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Tripartite Mechanism last week during which the Angolan minister of external relations, Georges Rebelo Pinto Chikoti, SA’s Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana- Mashabane, and Leonard She Okitundu Lundula, minister of foreign affairs and regional Integration of the DRC, reviewed their cooperation under the Mechanism which was signed by the respective governments four years ago (2013).
Maite Nkoana-Mashabane (far right) with her Angolan and DRC counterparts, Georges Chikoti (centre) and Leonard Okitundu (left).
