think about that well she's in south africa at the moment for talks with that country's president sarah ruhl oppose it our correspondent is covering the chancellor's visit and join just well from johannesburg any reaction yet from chancellor merkel on her party's defiant move. there is she just arrived here yesterday in the late even then and colleagues away on board of her plane tried to ask that question of course what is their reaction but she said no comment for now but we are expecting her to say something about it during the day when she will give her 1st press conference with the president of south africa. so why is america visiting south africa right now. well the key reason is economic south africa is the only industrialized country in sub-saharan africa and is a very important trade partner for germany as well 2 thirds of all german investments on this continent i'm going to south africa in fact and the german companies are doing surprisingly well talk to a lot of company representatives they're doing quite good business here and that is despite the fact that the overall economic s