Vice President of China Xi Jinping in Cape Town

18th of November - Vice President Xi JinPing signed a number of energy and trade deals during his state visit to South Africa yesterday. This visit is a followup from President Zuma's trip to China in August this year. During that visit they established the comphrehensive strategic cooperation agreement and outlined a plan for the two countries to further enhance their relationship.

Vice President Xi is expected to be in Pretoria later today to give his key note speech as well as to meet with the Chinese community leaders of South Africa at the Chinese Embassy.

There are over 300,000 Chinese in South Africa.