Tag: China-Africa relations

Local news Kenya launches national trade strategy (Kenya News Agency) Kenya has launched its National African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Implementation Strategy 20...

Local news Science, Innovation dept envisions a solid hydrogen economy by 2050 (Engineering News) South Africa’s Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) views hydrogen as a ...

Country-related news Imbalanced playing field trips up SA’s trade ambitions, Parliament hears (News24) The Department of Trade and Industry blamed capacity challenges at the Wo...

Country-related news Green energy transition will help South Africa become more resilient, competitive (Engineering News) South Africa needs more power generation to overcome the...

National trade news Economic policy uncertainty and the loss of South Africa’s growth momentum: Can the decline be reversed? (Daily Maverick) The gradual loss of growth momentu...

National Additive manufacturing in South Africa boosted by local technology developments (Engineering News) Although the Covid-19 pandemic has had a very real impact on the secto...

National Tanzania’s exports to Kenya double to Sh20 billion in six months (Business Daily) Kenya’s imports from Tanzania doubled to Sh20.5 billion in the first half of the ye...

National Opinion: Breaking the stranglehold on growth and recovery (Engineering News) In its ’South African Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan’, the government speaks ...

National Strengthening economic co-operation between South Africa and China (IOL) China’s economy, which accounts for 18% of global GDP, is characterised by near-frantic planni...

National Agricultural rebound: South Africa’s citrus exports heading for a record year (Daily Maverick) South Africa’s citrus industry, which looks set to export a record 160...

As of 1 January 2021, the Mauritian tariff book has three additional columns for preferential market access to the Mauritian market. These tariffs are for imports from the United K...

Country focus Ports upgrade and expand to support manufacturing and exports (Global Africa Network) Almost a third of South Africa’s manufactured exports are produced in KwaZul...

National Aviation industry anxious as COVID-19 resurgences force new travel bans (The South African) With a host of countries – mainly across Europe – announcing over the wee...

National Agricultural sector contribution to South Africa’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) (NAMC) South Africa’s economy bounced back in the third quarter (July to September) ...

National SA has most developed digital economy in Sub-Saharan Africa, says study (BizNews) South Africa has been described as having the most ‘developed digital economy’ in S...

National SARB warns rising public debt ‘will severely impact financial sector’ (The South African) According to the South African Reserve Bank (SARB), National Treasury’s O...

National Cheap imports sour SA’s sweet silver lining (IOL) When President Cyril Ramaphosa, presenting the government’s Economic Reconstruction and Recovery Plan to Parliament...

National Loss of capacity and skills in cotton value chain costs SA R20bn (Cape Business News) Despite the solid growth that the South African cotton industry has experienced in ...

National South Africa won’t meet debt targets, president’s council says (Moneyweb) South Africa won’t be able to meet its finance ministry’s debt targets and it may be un...

National Time to implement reforms running out – FirstRand chair (Moneyweb) FirstRand chair Roger Jardine says the “socio-economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic has brough...