Mandela pays his first state visit to Mozambique

Date: 20 Jul 1994
Updated: 20 Jul 2026

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After the 1994 national elections, President Nelson Mandela paid his first official state visit to neighbouring country Mozambique. During his trip Mandela met with his Mozambican counterpart Joaquim Chissano. The meeting resulted in the two countries entering into the RSA/Mozambique Joint Permanent Commission for Co-operation (JPCC), which entailed the legal framework for bilateral relations between them. The JPCC served as an enabling mechanism to sign more than twenty agreements in various spheres of co-operation, inter alia, regular visits on official, ministerial, presidential and parliamentary level, the Maputo Development Corridor and a Joint Water Commission.

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01Kalley, J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997, Westport: Greenwood.
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South African History Online. (2011, March 16). Mandela pays his first state visit to Mozambique. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0013172

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