India, June 3 -- South Africa's Deputy President Shipokosa Paulus Mashatile and External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Tuesday held wide-ranging talks focusing on boosting bilateral ties in trade, investments, infrastructure and the digital domain.

In the delegation-level meeting, the two sides also agreed that India and South Africa must work closely in international forums.

The South African deputy president also met Vice President C P Radhakrishnan and discussed various aspects of historical, cultural and people-to-people relations between the two nations.

Mashatile, accompanied by his wife Humile Mashatile and a high-powered delegation comprising five ministers and deputy ministers, is on a six-day visit to India from May 29 wit...