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Minister Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe, allow me, once more, to welcome you and your delegation to South Africa. We are pleased and privileged to host you in Pretoria and wish you a productive and fruitful Working Visit. You come all the way from the Land of a Thousand Hills, to grace our shores. We are grateful for your visit to the Hector Pieterson Memorial as we mark 50 years since the Soweto uprising of 16 June 1976 Despite certain differences, relations between our two countries have always been friendly, cordial and based on mutual cooperation and respect. South Africa and Rwanda shoulder a responsibility to cooperate more deeply, as there is a lot that binds our peoples together. Both our countries emerged from painful pasts, from the Apartheid era in South Africa and the Genocide against the Tutsi people in Rwanda. We will not forget and will forever remember the heroes and heroines who laid their lives to nurture and build foundations for the two nations that are South Africa and Rwanda today. These bonds are also forged from our steadfast belief in solidarity, African Unity and Pan Africanism.