Nigeria–South Africa relations
{'<entity_0>': 'Nigeria–South Africa relations', '<entity_1>': 'South Africa', '<entity_2>': 'Nigeria'}
[['Nigeria–South Africa relations', 'country', 'Nigeria'], ['Nigeria–South Africa relations', 'country', 'South Africa']]
<entity_0> refers to the current and historical relationship between <entity_2> and <entity_1>. During the apartheid era in <entity_1>, <entity_2> was one of the foremost supporter of anti-apartheid movements, including the African National Congress; the Nigerian government issued more than 300 passports to South Africans seeking to travel abroad. <entity_2> acted against <entity_1> to replace the incumbent Jean Ping, who <entity_2> supports, with South African Home Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma for the powerful position of the African Union Commission chairperson. But as usual, people can insinuate that once <entity_2> was not in the camp of <entity_1>, it means that <entity_2> is against <entity_1>. In November 2009, <entity_1> hosted the <entity_1>-<entity_2> Bi-National Commission in Pretoria. At the conference, it was noted that Oando, an energy conglomerate based in Lagos had recently been listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and the <entity_2>-based Dangote Group had invested a record $378 million in <entity_1>'s cement industry. Between 2002 and 2012 South African imports from <entity_2> have increased by 750% (mostly increases in oil imports) whilst Nigerian imports from <entity_1> have increased by 130%. The <entity_2> - <entity_1> Chamber of Commerce serves to improve and facilitate bi-lateral trade relationships between <entity_2> and <entity_1>. Its offices are in Lagos, <entity_2> and it has in its membership 315 companies currently trading in both <entity_2> and <entity_1>.
['bilateral relation']