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).
