South Africa Committed To Working With Nigeria – Envoy

By Victor Ernest

South Africa’s High Commissioner to Nigeria Lulu Mnguni says his country is willing to work with Nigeria for Africa’s development and creation of export market for both countries.

Mnguni was speaking at a welcoming session for the South African business delegation which arrived in Lagos on Thursday.

The mission, which started on Monday in Ghana and kicked-off its second-leg on Thursday in Lagos, is organised by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI).

Consolidating

According to Mnguni, the two countries do not only focus on servicing the interests of their own citizens, but also to consolidate the African Development Agenda.

”Both South Africa and Nigeria were the leading forces in Africa.”

”As both countries move towards the regeneration of the African continent they both could play an important role as the two major countries with leading economies,” the envoy noted.

According to him, South Africa has an advantage of assisting other African countries to diversify their economies with its vast wealth of expertise.

Trade objective

To this end, he noted that the Department of Mineral Resources of South Africa has been working on the objective on which to work with Nigeria.

He said part of the objective was to identify and create export markets for South African value-added products and services.

”It is to also serve as a means to create and promote South African business partnerships between business communities of Nigeria and South Africa,” he added.

The mission will focus on sectors that deal with agro-processing, electro-technical, infrastructure, mining, services and capital equipment.

The programme for the mission also include trade and investment seminars, site visits and business-to-business meetings.