/ 16 February 1999

Mandela meets Chiluba

President Nelson Mandela will hold talks with visiting Zambian President Frederick Chiluba on Wednesday, his office said in Cape Town on Monday. The two leaders will have a lunch meeting in Cape Town, spokeswoman Priscilla Naidoo said.The talks are likely to centre on efforts to negotiate a peaceful solution to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Chiluba has played a central role in attempts to broker a peace deal to end the war in the DRC.