The two presidents witnessed the signing of three bilateral contracts in tourism, infrastructure and foreign affairs sectors.
Magufuli said they have agreed to strengthen cooperation in various other areas such as industry, trade and investment, education, health care, and defence and security.
“We will have a monitoring mechanism to ensure that all the agreed issues are implemented in a proper and timely manner,” he added.
According to Magufuli, as part of the education sector cooperation, Tanzania will send Kiswahili teachers to teach the language in South African colleges and universities.
“We (furthermore) call on investors from South Africa to come and inject their resources in Tanzania through establishing mineral processing industries, tourist hotels, pharmaceutical industries, construction projects, and agro-processing industries, to mention but a few,” he said.
Zuma, meanwhile, urged business people from both countries to take advantage of the strong historical relations between them and explore mutually-beneficial business opportunities.
He said both he and President Magufuli have agreed to pay particular focus on economic cooperation by encouraging private sector investments, infrastructure development, agro-processing and joint venture projects.
In addition, he said they inaugurated the Bi-National Commission between the two countries, at head of state and government level.
According to Zuma, the BNC will provide the required impetus to Tanzania-South Africa relations by expanding cooperation to cover political, economic, security and cultural areas.
He also warned that the successful implementation of Agenda 2063 will remain a dream if African countries do not resolve the security challenges facing the continent.
He described his current visit to Tanzania as “important for South Africa, given that this year we are celebrating the legacy of Oliver Reginald Tambo,” adding that Tanzania played a central role in Tambo’s life and that of the African National Congress (ANC).
Bonds of friendship and comradeship were forged when ANC leaders Tambo, Nelson Mandela and Joe Matthews met in Dar es Salaam in 1962 to discuss ANC’s armed struggle, he recalled.
Said Zuma: “Tanzania became our wonderful and hospitable home for many decades thereafter, as we fought an evil apartheid regime that perpetuated crimes against humanity.”
“Under the leadership of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, Tanzania played a key role in the establishment and running of the Organisation of African Unity’s Liberation Committee, and is indeed the home of our liberation history in southern Africa.”
The South African president also extended his condolences over the recent Karatu school bus tragedy in which 35 people were killed, mostly schoolchildren.“We join the Tanzanian people in mourning this untimely and painful loss of our children,” he said.
The two presidents later in the afternoon addressed a grand forum bringing over 80 business people from South Africa together with members of Tanzania’s own business community.
In the forum, Magufuli encouraged South African investors to invest in the country and assured them of their security plus a conducive investment environment in the country.
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