Tag: COVID-19
tralac Daily News
30 Jul 21 NewsNational
SA should reform fragmented financial services ombuds, World Bank recommends (SAnews)
A World Bank diagnostic study has recommended that South Africa restructure its fra...
tralac Daily News
29 Jul 21 NewsNational
SA economy to recover to pre-COVID levels in 2023 (SAnews)
Finance Minister Tito Mboweni says the National Treasury now predicts that the South African economy will retu...
tralac Daily News
27 Jul 21 NewsNational
Transnet cyber attack confirmed: Port terminals division declares force majeure (Moneyweb)
In an unprecedented move, Transnet Port Terminals (TPT) declared force majeure...
tralac Daily News
26 Jul 21 NewsNational
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...
The role of profit in vaccine development
23 Jul 21 BlogThere has been much comment on the role of big pharmaceutical companies in developing a vaccine against Covid-19. Opinions generally fall into one of two camps: either that it is w...
tralac Daily News
21 Jul 21 NewsNational
Cost of containers, freight have increased on the back of Covid-19 (Engineering News)
The cost of freight containers, rental costs and shipping freight rates have increa...
Resilience in African Economies: What Governments could do and the AfCFTA could contribute
20 Jul 21 PublicationsAfreximbank recently published a paper in the Bank’s Policy Journal under the title of Building a Better Future of Work for Resilience and Growth in Post-COVID-19 Africa. It make...
tralac Daily News
15 Jul 21 NewsNational
Updates on looting and protests in South Africa
Supply China Latest: Mass Looting Blocks a Key African Trade Gateway (Bloomberg)
Widespread social unrest gripping South...
tralac Daily News
14 Jul 21 NewsNational
Preserving Macroeconomic Stability, Revitalizing Jobs and Improving Investment Climate Critical for South Africa’s Post-COVID-19 Recovery (World Bank)
South Africa is ...
tralac Daily News
12 Jul 21 NewsNational
South Africa has lost its status as gateway to Africa as trucks burn – RFA (Engineering News)
President Cyril Ramaphosa must ensure that the violent scenes currently p...
tralac Daily News
11 Jul 21 NewsNational
Sars, Busa form economic operator stakeholder group to improve border management (Engineering News)
The South African Revenue Service (Sars) and business advocacy organi...
tralac Annual Conference 2021
09 Jul 21 EventThis year’s tralac Annual Conference was, for the second year, a virtual event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At this year’s conference we considered some lessons from COVID-19....
Covid vaccine manufacturing in Africa – important, but not the first-line response to this pandemic
06 Jul 21 BlogMany Africans are, quite justifiably, deeply angered at the inequities in the global distribution of vaccines to combat the Covid-19 epidemic. These replicate existing global inequ...
tralac Daily News
05 Jul 21 NewsNational
Rebuilding The South African Industrial Base – Progress with Sugar and Poultry Masterplans (the dtic)
Solid progress is being made with implementation of partnership a...
The impact of Covid-19 restrictions on intra-Africa transit traffic through South Africa
03 Jul 21 PublicationsFrom the end of 2019, as the Covid-19 virus began to spread, countries have implemented various mitigating measures. These vary across countries and include short-term shutting-dow...
IMF Response to Indebtedness in sub-Saharan Africa: Rays of Hope combating the shadow of COVID-19
03 Jul 21 PublicationsThe state of indebtedness in sub-Saharan African has been extensively detailed in a previous tralac trade brief. That brief showed that the region was already struggling with high ...
Global economy could lose over $4 trillion due to COVID-19 impact on tourism
02 Jul 21 NewsEconomic losses are mounting in developing countries due to the absence of widespread COVID-19 vaccinations.
The crash in international tourism due to the coronavirus pandemic cou...
tralac Daily News
02 Jul 21 NewsNational
Port delays, slow vaccine rollout threatening to dent consumption – Naamsa (Engineering News)
New-vehicle sales increased by 20.2% in June, to 38 030 units, compared w...
tralac Daily News
01 Jul 21 NewsNational
SA’s trade surplus is continuing its upward swing (IOL)
South Africa’s bumper trade activity rose above expectations in May as the country recorded the largest month...
tralac Daily News
30 Jun 21 NewsNational
SA’s trade partners embroiled in nasty spat over alleged abuse of UN resources (Independent Online)
South Africa’s trade partners, the UK and the Democratic Republic...