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Angola: Jacob Zuma Says Cuito Should Become Pilgrimage Site
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Angola Press Agency (Luanda)
24 March 2008
Posted to the web 24 March 2008
Luanda
The President of South Africa's African National Congress (ANC), Jacob Zuma on Sunday considered Cuito Cuanavale as one of the most important regions of Africa and that it should be turned into a site for pilgrimage.
Jacob Zuma, who is paying a five-day visit to Angola, was speaking during a dinner with militants of Angola's ruling MPLA party, offered by Bongani Investments Holdings entrepreneurial group.
In his opinion, Cuito Cuanavale is one of the most important regions of Southern Africa and the defeat suffered by the extinct Apartheid forces in this region changed the political and historic course of the liberation of the region.
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That entity added that the results of the fights that occurred in the region, with the defeat of the Apartheid forces resulted in stability in Angola, independence in Namibia and the liberation of South Africa.
Zuma also called for a greater collaboration amongst countries to guarantee the improvement of the living standards of their respective populations.
The dinner was attended by the Vice President of MPLA, Pitra Neto, members of the politburo, central committee and secretariat of the central committee. It also counted on a music show that gathered singers Yola Semedo, Conde and Dina Alexandre, and songs by South African singer Miriam Makeba were also interpreted.
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