SA-Botswana trade in the spotlight

Enhancing projects between South Africa and Botswana is important for economic development, president Jacob Zuma said on Thursday. "We need to prioritise cross-border projects to ease movement of goods and services," Zuma said at a bi-national commission with his Botswana counterpart, president Ian Khama, in Pretoria. The three-day meeting saw the two countries discussing co-operation in sectors such as energy, trade and investment, education, defence, water and the environment and immigration, Zuma said. The meeting ran from Monday to Thursday. Zuma said there was a need to strengthen co-operation within organisations in the region and across the continent. Khama said he would ensure the two countries co-operated at the highest level. "I will do everything in my power whilst I am still in office to enhance these relations."