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South Africa calls for greater engagement with Turkish businesses (Daily Sabah) Top South African trade official emphasized Monday the vital importance of bilateral trade relation...

Patel welcomes VW’s R4 billion investment in SA (SAnews) Volkswagen South Africa’s (VWSA) investment of R4 billion in their assembly plant in Kariega, in the Eastern Cape, has...

South Africa to Keep Anti-Dumping Duties on Chicken Imports From US (Bloomberg) South Africa’s trade minister approved a recommendation to maintain anti-dumping duties on frozen...

Mining and manufacturing production rebounds (Freight News) South Africa’s mining production has rebounded following a challenging start to the year. Statistics SA’s latest da...

South Africa puts biggest trade partner in its crosshairs over R20 billion and 100,000 jobs (BusinessTech) South Africa said it has taken a preliminary step toward filing a compla...

Citrus fight: SA moves to take action against EU (News24) South Africa has taken a preliminary step toward filing a complaint with the World Trade Organisation against the Europea...

South Africa seeks to secure global plastics pollution treaty by balancing competing interests (Engineering News) South Africa will seek to secure a legally binding global plastic...

South Africa well placed to benefit from huge green hydrogen outlook, attendees hear (Engineering News) Green hydrogen has a massive potential future and South Africa is very well...

South African fossil fuel subsidies hit record R118bn in 2023 (Engineering News) A new study has found that South Africa’s fossil fuel subsidies tripled between 2018 and 2023, r...

2024-2029 Development priorities for Zambia: Infrastructure and Agricultural Value Chain (AfDB) The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved the Count...

Role of gas in SA’s future energy mix comes under intense scrutiny (Engineering News) Given South Africa’s ongoing energy crisis, there remains much debate around whether gas ...

TPT outlines actions to support 15% growth in citrus exports during 2024 season (Engineering News) Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) reports that it has recruited 200 additional cargo...

BLSA calls for immediate reworking of IRP, describing assumptions as ‘spurious’ (Engineering News) Business Leadership South Africa (BLSA), whose members include the largest d...

Trade Statistics for February 2024 (South African Revenue Service) South Africa recorded a preliminary trade balance surplus of R14.0 billion in February 2024. This surplus is att...

Full Quarterly Bulletin - No 311 (South African Reserve Bank) The real gross value added (GVA) by the primary sector contracted further in the fourth quarter of 2023 due to a furt...

Chicken industry needs no tariff rebates because there is no shortage, Sapa stresses (Engineering News) Executives from the South African Poultry Association (Sapa) met with Trade...

Protectionism and shipping disruptions threaten agri trade (Farmer’s Weekly) Solid business partnerships will become increasingly important to navigate market threats, according...

Call to transform the biodiversity sector (SAnews) Minister of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment Barbara Creecy has called for the urgent transformation of the biodiversity ...

$10-billion Namibian green hydrogen project receives major German boost (Engineering News) Namibia’s first gigawatt scale green hydrogen project – the $10-billion Hyphen devel...

Competition Commission to tackle economic concentration by large companies, Ramaphosa promises (Engineering News) Government will be setting a target for the Competition Commissio...