{"id":215708,"date":"2025-12-04T21:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/south-africa-president-ramaphosa-positions-mozambique-as-south-africas-top-african-economic-partner\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T21:54:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:54:58","slug":"south-africa-president-ramaphosa-positions-mozambique-as-south-africas-top-african-economic-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/south-africa-president-ramaphosa-positions-mozambique-as-south-africas-top-african-economic-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: President Ramaphosa Positions Mozambique As South Africa&#8217;s Top African Economic Partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">President Cyril Ramaphosa has used his official dinner remarks in Maputo to underscore Mozambique&#8217;s growing significance as South Africa&#8217;s leading economic partner on the continent, saying the two nations are one people bound by history and now firmly focused on shared prosperity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Speaking on the eve of the fourth South Africa-Mozambique Bi-National Commission (BNC), President Ramaphosa said the bilateral relationship &#8211; forged in the struggle against colonialism and apartheid &#8211; had evolved into&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512030179.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Cyril Ramaphosa has used his official dinner remarks in Maputo to underscore Mozambique&#8217;s growing significance as South Africa&#8217;s leading economic partner on the continent, saying the two nations are one people bound by history and now firmly focused on shared prosperity. Speaking on the eve of the fourth South Africa-Mozambique Bi-National Commission (BNC), President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,6287,4380,3576,4704,682,257,6536,9323,2450,8878,5069,254,7319],"class_list":["post-215708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-african","tag-economic","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-partner","tag-positions","tag-president","tag-ramaphosa","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}