South Africa has provided “diplomatic and financial support” to the Burundi peace process and has pledged to assist in the “socio-economic reconstruction” of the country, deputy foreign minister Aziz Pahad said yesterday (Tuesday). Pahad said in a statement after meeting Burundi’s Transitional Assembly second vice president Augustine Nzojibwami, that South Africans were also participating in two key committees set up at Arusha. President Nelson Mandela’s legal advisor Fink Haysom chairs the committee on constitutional reform and transitional institutions. South African General Andrew Masondo is vice-chair of the committee dealing with the cessation of hostilities and related military matters.
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