Zuma arrives in Iran

[schumi]

retoria –*President Jacob Zuma has arrived in Iran for a state visit, the Presidency said on Sunday.

“This is the second South African state visit to Iran, the first having been undertaken by President Nelson Mandela in 1999,” said spokesperson, Bongani Majola, in a statement.

“The President's state visit to the Islamic Republic of Iran will serve to cement the strong fraternal relations between the two countries that originated during the apartheid era when Iran refused to oil the apartheid machinery and instead cut ties with apartheid South Africa,” said Majola.

“In addition, the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions against Iran provides immense potential for closer commercial and investment co-operation between South Africa and Iran,” he said.

Zuma is accompanied by Deputy Minister of International Relations and Co-operation Nomaindia Mfeketo, Minister of Trade and Industry Rob Davies, Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan, Minister of Energy Tina Joemat-Pettersson, Minister of Water and Sanitation Nomvula Mokonyane, and Minister of Economic Development Ebrahim Patel as well as a business delegation.

News24
Link: http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/zuma-arrives-in-iran-20160424

 

[grok]

More business for his family?

 

[Nick333]

More business for his family?

You seem to have accidentally hit the the "?" key instead of the "." key.

 

[WaxLyrical]

The banks in Dubai are full?

 

[Grant]

"Iran occupies a special place in our struggle against apartheid," Zuma said, noting how Tehran cut ties with South Africa when it was under white rule, only resuming relations in 1994 after Nelson Mandela was elected as its first black president.

http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/N...ce-in-our-struggle-against-apartheid-20160424

hilarious
iran was sa's 3rd biggest source of oil during the oil embargo - but then again according to the village idiot, africa is also the biggest continent

 

[deweyzeph]

Zuma seems to be doing his best to align South Africa with all the most despicable dictatorships and regimes in the world:

Dubai
Saudia Arabia
Iran
China
Russia

What's next? North Korea maybe?

 

[Drifter]

Zuma seems to be doing his best to align South Africa with all the most despicable dictatorships and regimes in the world:

Dubai
Saudia Arabia
Iran
China
Russia

What's next? North Korea maybe?

Quick, shout BINGO!!

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Zuma seems to be doing his best to align South Africa with all the most despicable dictatorships and regimes in the world:

Dubai
Saudia Arabia
Iran
China
Russia

What's next? North Korea maybe?

http://www.news24.com/archives/city...pares-madiba-to-dictator-kim-il-sung-20150430

 

[Mila]

They can keep him.

 

[Alan]

Zuma seems to be doing his best to align South Africa with all the most despicable dictatorships and regimes in the world:

Dubai
Saudia Arabia
Iran
China
Russia

What's next? North Korea maybe?

The ANC has always aligned itself with the most despicable dictatorships and regimes in the world. Bit rich to now suddenly blame Zuma

 

[yebocan]

Can they not keep him?

 

[Excalibur]

The USA has always aligned itself with the most despicable dictatorships and regimes in the world. Bit rich to now suddenly blame Zuma

FIFY

 

[schumi]

Iran, SA bolster partnership

Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma drove to his bilateral meeting with President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran yesterday at the former palace of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

Zuma’s motorcade was greeted by pomp and ceremony, including lavishly decorated horsemen lining the tree-canopied route to the palace.

The first statement Rouhani made in their joint media conference was that in 1979, Iran had stopped all oil exports to South Africa and severed economic ties by order of Ayatollah Khomeini, now deceased. Unlike the Shah, who had close relations with the apartheid government, the Iranian revolutionaries threw their support behind South Africa’s liberation movements.

More at:http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/iran-sa-bolster-partnership-2013981

 

[Sl8er]

Zuma seems to be doing his best to align South Africa with all the most despicable dictatorships and regimes in the world:

Dubai
Saudia Arabia
Iran
China
Russia

What's next? North Korea maybe?

That'll never happen...there isn't a room in the world big enough to hold both those egos at the same time.

 

[Jet-Fighter7700]

Zuma seems to be doing his best to align South Africa with all the most despicable dictatorships and regimes in the world:

Dubai
Saudia Arabia
Iran
China
Russia

What's next? North Korea maybe?

forgot to add venuzuela and cuba....
literally a who-who of the worst regimes in the world,

Oh I forgot, hamas and hezbolla as well, maybe ISIS while they at it....

anybody that says SA isnt a Halfway house for every terrorist in the world, is deluding themselves....
that is the REAL reason they will never strike here,

this is where most of their finance and recruitment happens, quite in the open.

we equipped like a first world country( internet,banks,infustructure), but regulated like a third world(ANC,EFF ect...), so its perfect for the terrorists...

 

[Grant]

FIFY

are you drunk ?