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Zuma: SA to follow Brazil's example

 Johannesburg - President Jacob Zuma promised on Friday that South Africa would follow Brazil's path of economic development to build the country.

"We want to follow the Brazilian example of economics as a device for social development," Zuma told an audience of South African and Brazilian business people and policy makers in Johannesburg.

Zuma added that with South Africa's hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup and Brazil hosting the event in 2014, businesses between the two countries could share ideas.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva told the audience the successful hosting of the World Cup had demonstrated the country's ability to compete, and would change the image of the continent as a whole.

"When they show success in Africa, they show a lion running or a giraffe," observed Lula de Silva to laughter.

"But when you show the people, you show the slums. We don't want people not to show the slums, but let's also show the good things Africa does."

Da Silva decried the lack of direct air links between Brazil and  South Africa and said he would make it his "mission" to change this before his term of office concluded at the end of the year.

- Sapa  

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