The President of Cuba, Raul Castro, met in Havana with the Secretary General of the South African Communist Party, Blade Nzimande, who is on an official visit to the island, state television reported.
During the meeting, Castro, who is first secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC only legal), and the South African Communist leader exchanged on "historical relations of brotherhood and cooperation between both parties and governments," the report said television.
The two leaders also talked about "other issues on the international agenda", according to the official note of the meeting.
Cuba and South Africa maintain close political relations since they established diplomatic relations in 1994, when the apartheid regime of "apartheid" and then underground African National Congress (ANC) came to power was dismantled in Pretoria.
Nzimande was accompanied at the meeting by the member of senior management of the Politburo and second secretary of the Communist Party of South Africa, Solomon Solly Mapailla.
On the Cuban side participated in the meeting, the member of the Politburo and State Council vice president, Salvador Valdes; and Jose Ramon Balaguer, member of the Central Committee Secretariat and head of its International Relations Department of the Communist Party of the island. EFE