France regards South Africa as a crucial strategic partner and there is close cooperation on various levels such as peacekeeping on the continent, infrastructure development projects in South Africa, and so forth.
A Framework Charter for Partnership has been signed between France and South Africa, one of only six countries with whom France has such a partnership document. For more information on the content, implications and significance of the document, read here. The document itself can be read on the website of the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs.
For more information on France’s political, economic, cultural, scientific, civil and military relations with South Africa, visit the website of the French Ministry for Foreign Affairs.