“With India under the leadership of Mr Modi, the government of South Africa looks forward to consolidating the strong bilateral political and economic relations that exist between our two sister republics,” Zuma said in a statement.

South Africa and India enjoyed strong historical relations that had been formalised through various bilateral and multilateral mechanisms.

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