Kenya–South Africa relations
{'<entity_0>': 'Kenya–South Africa relations', '<entity_1>': 'South Africa', '<entity_2>': 'Kenya'}
[['Kenya–South Africa relations', 'country', 'Kenya'], ['Kenya–South Africa relations', 'country', 'South Africa']]
<entity_0> are bilateral relations between <entity_2> and <entity_1>. <entity_1> is a strategic partner of <entity_2> in many areas, particularly trade and security. During <entity_1>'s apartheid regime cordial relations with <entity_2> were maintained, as <entity_2> was one of Africa's leading pro-Western governments. In November 1990 <entity_1>'s minister of foreign affairs, Pik Botha, visited <entity_2> in the first publicised ministerial-level contact between the two countries since 1960. Relations were further consolidated when President de Klerk visited <entity_2> in June 1991, and Kenyan president Daniel Arap Moi visited Cape Town in June 1992 the first visit to <entity_1> by an African head of state. <entity_2>'s Government failed to exert enough pressure against South African regime over its apartheid policy for many years in various international fora .While <entity_2> supported OAU resolutions which prohibited any kind of interaction with <entity_1>, prominent Government officials still continued to act in a way which compromised its position. Others claim that it <entity_2>'s principle of ‘non-interference’ which limited <entity_2> from playing a more robust role in <entity_1>'s liberation struggle. It was against this background that relations between <entity_1> and <entity_2> were not very warm during the early days of post apartheid. In early 2013, <entity_2> and <entity_1> were said to be working on a preferential trade agreement that could eliminate administrative barriers and boost exchange of goods and services between the two nations. <entity_1> has increased its chunk of <entity_2>'s market in the last 10 years to become the fifth largest source of imports after shipping in Kes.73.8 billion ($810 million) worth of goods in 2011.
['bilateral relation']