DUSHANBE, May 16, 2016, Asia-Plus – Tajikistan’s Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa (RSA), with residence in Cairo, Egypt, Khusrav Noziri has presented his credentials to RSA President Jacob Zuma, according to the Tajik MFA information department.

Khusrav Noziri is Tajikistan’s first Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa.

In the course of the talks, Noziri reportedly noted that Tajikistan was interested in expanding cooperation with the Republic of South Africa (South Africa).

There are eleven official names of South Africa, one in each of its eleven official languages.  The number is surpassed only by India.  These languages include English, Afrikaans, the Nguni languages (Zulu, Xhosa, Ndebele, and Swazi), as well as the Sotho languages, which include Tswana, Sotho and Northern Sotho. The remaining two languages are Venda and Tsonga.