The Italian Embassy in South Africa and the South African Ministry of Science and Technology, in collaboration with the Inter-University Consortium for Data Intensive Astronomy, INAF (National Institute of Astrophysics), and SARAO (South African Radio Astronomical Observatory), are organising the workshop "Enhancing the collaboration in radio-astronomy between Italy and South Africa" which will be held in Pretoria on October 24th and 25th. The meeting will be divided in four sessions: SKA Observations and Very Long Baseline Interferometry - links between the African VLBI Network and the Italian VLBI Network, VLBI with MeerKAT; SKA challenges - big data and cloud computing; big data and data analytics; artificial intelligence for radio astronomy; industrial collaborations; joint initiatives for training and development of human capital in radio astronomy.