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SA and Zambia have a number of bilateral agreements covering trade and industrial development, agriculture and animal husbandry, writes Kevin Ritchie.
Two weeks after his release from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela embarked on an 18-day foreign tour to thank the countries that had supported the ANC during the struggle against apartheid.
His first stop was Zambia.
It was only right and proper. After going into exile in 1961, ANC president Oliver Tambo established ANC missions across the continent, basing the movement in Tanzania. Northern Rhodesia was a critical transit point for South African refugees on their way to Tanzania to be trained as Umkhonto we Sizwe cadres on the “Freedom Ferry” from Botswana across the Zambezi.
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