{"id":9676,"date":"2012-04-27T11:22:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T11:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=9676"},"modified":"2012-04-27T11:22:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T11:22:28","slug":"malawian-president-to-visit-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/27\/malawian-president-to-visit-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Malawian president to visit South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>The new president of Malawi, Joyce Banda, will visit President Jacob Zuma in South Africa on Friday 27 April which is South Africa&#8217;s Freedom Day, the government said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This would be Banda&#8217;s first official visit to South Africa and her first international trip following her inauguration as president earlier in April.<\/p>\n<p>Banda was inaugurated following the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika, who was buried in Malawi last week.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_7966\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Jacob-Zuma.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7966\" class=\" wp-image-7966 \" title=\"Jacob Zuma\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Jacob-Zuma.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"365\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7966\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#39;Brother Zuma&#39; Gave Malawi fuel<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nZuma and Banda are expected to exchange views on issues of mutual interest and common concern.<\/p>\n<p>International relations and co-operation department spokesman Clayson Monyela said the meeting would focus on Malawi&#8217;s economic problems, especially fuel shortages and foreign exchange.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouth Africa is currently the second largest provider of foreign direct investment in Malawi,\u201d Monyela said.<\/p>\n<p>Malawi is one of South Africa&#8217;s top ten trading partners in Africa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new president of Malawi, Joyce Banda, will visit President Jacob Zuma in South Africa on Friday 27 April which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[1853,258,379,1498],"class_list":["post-9676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-jacob-zuma","tag-malawi","tag-south-africa","tag-zuma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}