Tag: Extractive industries
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23 Mar 22 NewsLocal news
South Africa takes massive digital leap forward, says Ramaphosa (Engineering News)
Last week, government concluded the auction of high-demand spectrum for mobile telec...
Mozambique gas bounces back
28 Feb 22 BlogWhen TotalEnergies declared force majeure on its Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) project in Mozambique’s northern Cabo Delgado province in April last year, in the face of a violent...
Gold tax scam in South Africa points to a huge illicit industry
10 Feb 22 BlogFraudulent activity in South Africa’s second-hand gold market has been happening for years. But the details contained in a 2021 judgement suggests that the scale of this trade ma...
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01 Feb 22 NewsCountry-related news
Trade Statistics for December 2021 (South African Revenue Service)
SARS has released trade statistics for December 2021 recording a preliminary trade ba...
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25 Jan 22 NewsCountry-related news
Investments worth more than R26bn in SA’s ocean economy unveiled (Moneyweb)
A package of investments worth more than R26 billion in South Africa’s oceans...
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18 Aug 21 NewsNational
South Africa wants to introduce a vaccine passport – but there’s a catch (BusinesTech)
The Department of Tourism says that it wants to introduce a vaccine passport f...
Exploring Southern Africa’s battery mineral potential
15 Apr 21 BlogAlmost all of the emerging green economy’s high-demand minerals are found in abundance in Southern Africa. Indeed, the region dominates both current supply and known reserves for...
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01 Feb 21 NewsCountry focus
Short-term low growth is ‘new normal’ (Moneyweb.co.za)
As the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic continues to ripple through 2021 and South Africa faces economic c...
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19 Jan 21 NewsCountry focus
SA must embrace innovation to rebuild economy: President Ramaphosa (SAnews)
With the COVID-19 pandemic having battered the South African fiscus in 2020, President C...
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24 Nov 20 NewsNational
South Africa’s refinery woes raise reliance on fuel imports (BusinessTech)
South Africa, which buys nearly a third of its fuel requirements from overseas, is undergoin...
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16 Nov 20 NewsNational
Third chapter of SA investment conference gets underway this week (The South African)
President Cyril Ramaphosa will host the third South Africa Investment Conference on...
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19 Oct 20 NewsNational
Job creation is key to SA’s economic recovery (SAnews)
As the country recovers from the devastation of the Coronavirus pandemic, President Cyril Ramaphosa has emphasis...
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09 Oct 20 NewsNational
One SA’s Economic Recovery Plan revealed: 20 key interventions (The South African)
One South Africa Movement (One SA) Chief Activist Mmusi Maimane, on Thursday 8 Octob...
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08 Oct 20 NewsNational
Illicit trade hotline to curb illegal activity (IOL)
Illegal trading is one of the biggest threats to economic order and growth in the country, according to the Consumer...
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15 Sep 20 NewsNational news
Master plan starts to encourage poultry sector expansion (Engineering News)
South African poultry producers have pledged to invest R1.7-billion towards expansi...
The impact of COVID-19 on African Oil Sector: A special report by AFREC on the implications on African Countries
01 Jun 20 NewsThe Coronavirus (COVID-19) is bringing unprecedented changes to the world.
Its impact and the necessary response of governments will mean that the next one to two years at least w...
Africa’s Production and Trade: Agriculture and minerals
13 Mar 20 PublicationsAfrica as a continent has extensive potential, not only to feed itself and alleviate hunger and food insecurity, but also to be an important exporter to global food markets. Agricu...
Mining Indaba 2020: Vague Promises leave South Africa’s Mining Industry Insecure
12 Feb 20 BlogAn article published online by the conference organisers sums up the limitations of events like the Investing in Africa Mining Indaba (‘the mining indaba’) held in Cape Town fr...
South African Mining and the African Continental Free Trade Agreement: South Africa’s exports of Mining Equipment, Technology and Services
18 Jan 20 PublicationsThe African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) was signed by 44 AU member states in 2018 and came into force in May 2019 after being ratified by 22 member states – the req...
tralac’s Daily News Selection
12 Nov 19 NewsTrade and development events to diarise:
Africa Forum on Mining (13 November, Accra). The forum will launch a regional platform, where African countries, regional organizatio...