Abbas’s chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said in Johannesburg on Tuesday that he would deliver a letter from Abbas to Zuma on Wednesday accepting Zuma’s earlier invitation to him to visit South Africa.

Erekat said the Palestinians and Israelis could and should have learnt a lot more from South Africa’s experience of negotiating an end to apartheid and the start of democracy in the early 1990s.

He recalled that about 10 years ago, he was among a group of Palestinians and Israelis invited by then-president Thabo Mbeki to meet key players who had been involved in South Africa’s negotiations, to learn from their experiences.

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