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Mbeki to meet Mugabe

    JOHANNESBURG

    President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa will travel to Zimbabwe on Friday for talks with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on the wars in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Angola.

    Presidential spokesman Parks Mankahlana said that Mbeki's visit was part of a South African effort to improve relations with its neighbours. "The aim is to ensure that good neighbourliness and regional cooperation is not just left at the level of pleasantries but were dealt with concretely," Mankahlana said. Mankahlana said that wars in the DRC and Angola "would
    obliviously feature" on the agenda.

    In reference to the current political situation in Zimbabwe he said: "The South African government wants to see growth and prosperity, not only in South Africa, but in the region, and that will include Zimbabwe."

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