Key winning points from Uhuru's meeting with SA's Jacob Zuma

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President Uhuru Kenyatta has left South Africa where he has been since Thursday.

Zuma has been implicated in numerous state capture allegations and this has fuelled discussions around his possible removal as state president by those close to Ramaphosa.

"We have laid the groundwork for my State visit sometime in the first quarter of this year", Kenyatta said, according to a statement posted on the Kenyan Presidency's website. "We look forward to concluding and signing various agreements".

Apart from the issues of trade and infrastructure, Presidents Kenyatta and Zuma also deliberated on regional peace and security, especially the South Sudan conflict and the "new slave trade in Libya".

While addressing the press after a closed-door meeting at President Kenyatta's villa in East London in South Africa, the two leaders said Africans have a common heritage, which needs to be exploited for their benefit.

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Ramaphosa's 'presidential campaign anchored on anti-corruption and anti-state capture both before and after his election last month, and his utterances about how he would dampen the mood if he touched on his January 8 statement saw attention being shifted towards Zuma.

The ANC today held its birthday celebrations in East London where it was commemorating its formation in 1912.

He said the message of unity that Ramaphosa has been delivering is one that resonates well, not only with South Africans but also with other parties on the African continent.

Piotr Matys, emerging market strategist at Rabobank, warned that ousting Zuma could also cause trouble for the South African currency, saying that: "The governing ANC could be engulfed in political bickering between Zuma's camp and members of the party who voted for Ramaphosa".

Ramaphosa is a veteran of the anti-apartheid struggle, and was the lead negotiator in talks to end apartheid and the writing of the country's constitution.

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