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Published: Monday, 25 March 2019 08:05

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Photo: RHCPretoria, March 25.- Cuban Vice President Inés María Chapman will meet today with Blade Nzimande, general secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa, an organization that is one of the three axes of the government's alliance in the southern nation.

According to the program of the visit, the vice president of the Councils of State and of Ministers will also have other meetings at the highest level.

Chapman arrived in South Africa on the eve, the first stop on a tour that will run until April 3 and includes Lesotho and Kenya, and told Prensa Latina that the message he brings from Cuba is' love, solidarity, cooperation with the countries of Africa. '

In that sense, the Minister of Public Works Thulas Nxesi, who came to receive it, pondered the long-standing cooperation between the peoples of his country and Cuba.

"A long-standing cooperation, even before the ANC (African National Congress) was in government," said Nxesi.

Currently, he said, cooperation has continued and extends specifically to the professional technical sector. 'Cuba is one of the countries that most offers international solidarity. Thanks Cuba for everything, "he concluded.

The vicemandataria participated yesterday in an emotional ceremony of recognition to veterans of the historic battle of Cuito Cuanavale, attended by, among others, the Minister of Defense, Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, and the Minister of Justice and Correctional Services, Michael Masutha.

Organized by the Cuban embassy, the event, held at the monumental Freedom Park complex in Pretoria, served to commemorate the 31st anniversary of the battle that took place in that remote town of the Angolan province of Cuando Cubango, which had a decisive contribution from internationalists of the island.

Mapisa-Nqakula said that Freedom Park is the history of his country and recalled that 'the Cuito Cuanavale fight was against a common enemy, the racist regime of South Africa'.

On that battle that changed the course of the war and accelerated the defeat of the segregationist regime (apartheid), he said: "I want to say thanks on behalf of the peoples of Africa, we owe it to Cuba."

For his part, the island's ambassador to South Africa, Rodolfo Benítez, confirmed that Cuito Cuanavale, became a symbol of resistance and courage 'after the victory there achieved by the revolutionary forces of Angola, SWAPO, MK and Cuba, against the army of the opprobrious apartheid regime. '

The Cuban delegation on this tour is also made up of the Deputy Director General of Bilateral Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Armando Vergara, as well as the ambassadors of Havana in the nations visited. (RHC)