Durban, Dec 01: A seven-member delegation of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam is in South Africa for a week-long visit to the country. The LTTE leaders are guests of the ruling ANC leader Ebrahim Ebrahim, who has visited Colombo on several occasions to hold talks with the Sri Lankan government and the rebel group, an ANC spokesperson said. During their stay, the LTTE leaders will hold talks with Deputy President Jacob Zuma, Tourism and environment Minister Mahomed Valli Moosa, ANC Secretary General Kgalema Motlanthe and chief of the South African revenue service Pravin Gordhan, who is also a former top struggle activist. The LTTE leaders will also hold talks with South African Tamil leaders in Durban. The ANC will host a public meeting for them in the suburb of Chatsworth, where most of the country's people of Indian origin live.


More than 50 per cent of South Africa's 1,2-million people of Indian origin are Tamil.

Several organisations in Johannesburg and Durban, including the Tamil Eelam support movement and the Tamil Eelam co-ordinating support committee support the cause of the LTTE in South Africa. Bureau Report