Tag: AfCFTA

Intervention urgent to resolve rail, port problems, says Business Leadership South Africa (Engineering News) Urgent intervention is required to resolve the problems of South Afric...

SADC 2023: The year for economic growth, resilience and value addition (sardc.net) The year 2023 offers an opportunity for SADC to consolidate its development agenda and the ...

African economic integration has been on the agenda for decades and has seen several designs. Under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) there is a new approach. This B...

6 February 2023 | Cape Town Facilitated by: Trudi Hartzenberg, Gerhard Erasmus, Michael Lawrence, John Stuart, Terry Gale, Eckart Naumann, John Stuart Topics for Discussion:...

The policies, decisions, and measures adopted within the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) institutions and in the State Parties, will impact directly on the position of...

The rights of women traders should be recognised and be protected to secure and improve their position under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The proposed AfCFTA P...

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement establishes a rather standard continent-wide preferential trade regime for goods and services. It does not yet contain sp...

The decision to adopt a Protocol on Women and the Youth as part of the collection of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) legal instruments is an important development....

The AfCFTA legal instruments have been negotiated in terms of founding Principles meant to steer the design and operations of the AfCFTA African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA...

When the negotiations for the adoption of the legal instruments of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) were launched in 2015, the objective was to boost intra African ...

The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) wants to boost intra-African trade through a continent-wide preferential trade in goods (and some services) arrangement. It wants t...

What must the AfCFTA deliver and how? A basic answer to this question can be found in Article 3 (General Objectives) and Article 4 (Specific Objectives) of the AfCFTA Agreement. Th...

The economic, political, and moral arguments for promoting and securing the interests and rights of women traders are irrefutable. Despite some advances, women still hold fewer job...

Government Support Will Help Transform Poultry Industry, Ensure Food Security (The Department of Trade Industry and Competition) The support that government provides to black-owne...

South Africa: Renewables industrialisation plan to be aligned to expected surge in private projects The newly appointed facilitator of the South African Renewable Energy Masterpla...

Regional Value Chains (RVCs) – a localised form of a global value chain (GVC) – are a form of trade that involves a chain of intermediate products and services value addition f...

Local news AfreximBank earmarks $100 million to tackle Nigeria’s export challenges (The Guardian Nigeria) The African Export and Import Bank (Afreximbank), yesterday, announced...

The ways in which developing countries industrialised post the industrial revolution have drawn attention from scholars for decades. The ‘Asian tigers’ are a group of South-Eas...

This Trade Report analyses one of the value chains identified as a development priority by the AfCFTA: the clothing, textile & leather sector (CT&L) in Africa, from the per...

Local news Zimbabwe Sanctions | Activists denounce new sanction regime (ENCA) HARARE - The United States has slapped new targeted sanctions on Zimbabwe. This is d...