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Pretoria - Brazil's
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s state visit to South Africa will be his
last visit as president before he retires in October after two terms.
During his
visit he will meet Jacob Zuma – who paid a state visit to Brazil in October
last year – in Pretoria.
Trade between
South Africa and Brazil amounted to $1.7bn (some R13bn) last year, though Brazil benefits most from
the relationship. A commission
comprising senior South African and Brazilian officials met in Pretoria in May.
Dilma Rousseff,
a former Lula chief of staff, is expected to become the new president. For the
past six months she has apparently been preparing for the position, reports the
authoritative British business journal
The
Economist.
Over the past
year Brazil achieved a growth rate of about 8%. Under the
popular presidency of Lula the number of Brazilians living below the breadline has declined from 49.5m to 29m, or 16% of the population.