CAPITALS OF KAZAKHSTAN AND SOUTH AFRICA ARE READY TO DEVELOP COMPREHENSIVE COOPERATION
THE CITY OF TSHWANE, 12 AUGUST 2020. On 11 August 2020 Mr. Kanat Tumysh, Ambassador of the Republic of Kazakhstan to South Africa, met in the Kazakh Embassy with Mr. Mahomed Essop, representative of the African National Congress party, Councillor in the Council of the City of Tshwane Metropolitan Municipality; Mr. Mohamed Faruk Hoosain, laureate of UNESCO awards, well-known in the Muslim community of the RSA South African educational researcher (who promoting strategically planned leadership and management development for middle and senior managers in education institutions); as well as Dr. Asadullah Abdulkarimzada, orientalist, researcher of the Arabic language and medieval philosophy.
During the meeting, the parties discussed the prospects for cooperation between the capitals of the two countries in the fields of higher education, culture, trade- economic and investment cooperation, industry, agriculture, tourism, as well as the promotion of youth.
With that, special attention was paid to the topics, related to the celebration in South Africa of the 1150th jubilee of Abu Nasr Al-Farabi, great medieval scientist and philosopher of the East, commemorated in 2020 in Kazakhstan and around the world under the auspices of UNESCO.
In particular, interlocutors touched upon the matters of promoting a joint cultural project between the two countries for the mutual popularization of the legacy of Al-Farabi in South Africa and the legacy of the First democratic President of South Africa H.E. Mr. Nelson Mandela in Kazakhstan, as well as organization of some events to this end (mutual assigning names of Al-Farabi and Nelson Mandela to the streets in both countries’ capitals, holding events with the participation of young people and academic circles, book publishing, etc.).
In this context, the South African side pledged its readiness to provide every support to the Embassy's initiatives, including establishment of “sister cities” (“twin towns”) ties between the capitals of the two countries - Nur-Sultan and Tshwane.