International Relations and Cooperation Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane will meet her counterparts on Thursday to discuss the leadership of the African Union (AU), her department said.
Nkoana-Mashabane will travel to Mozambique to attend a meeting of the Southern African Development Community's political and diplomatic committee to discuss their nomination of Malawi for chairmanship of the AU summit.
The meeting is a follow-up to September's gathering in Kinshasa where Malawi's candidacy was first proposed.
The foreign ministers will also be briefed on Zimbabwe by South African representatives and on the political situation in Madagascar.