South Africa and Brazil are like a newly married couple that still need to find themselves in their commitment to each other, said Riaan le Roux of the Department of Trade and Industry. Speaking at the opening of a Brazilian trade mission to South Africa recently, he said while Brazilian exports were much higher than exports from South Africa this would all change as the relationship developed. “Until very recently we did not know how to do business with Brazil. We are now in the process of finding each other in terms of quality of products, learning what the other’s needs are and taking those first tentative steps,” he said.
