Past Events

tralac organised an African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Stakeholder Workshop on 18-19 October 2018 in Cape Town to discuss the status of the negotiations and what still lies ahead.

tralac held its first Alumni Workshop in Cape Town on 3-4 May. All participants were graduates of tralac’s various capacity building programmes. The alumni shared how tralac training has shaped their careers.

tralac hosted a High-Level Dialogue on SACU, with a focus on the SACU Work Programme and Future Developments. Participants came from the private and public sectors across the region.

tralac co-hosted an AfCFTA Awareness Workshop in Harare, Zimbabwe, bringing together participants from government, private sector and civil society to examine the newly launched African trade pact.

tralac held its 2018 Annual Conference on 22 and 23 March in Kigali, Rwanda under the theme “The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) – Opportunity for Africa”. The Conference followed the 10th Extraordinary AU Summit which launched the AfCFTA.

On 6 February, tralac joined Wesgro, along with the US embassy, the USAID Trade and Investment Hub and the dti in presenting an exporter-focused AGOA seminar at the new Invest SA One Stop Shop in Cape Town

The Port Management Association of Eastern and Southern Africa (PMAESA) held its 2017 Annual Conference in Livingstone, Zambia from 22-23 November 2017. Dr Henry Mutai, tralac Associate, represented tralac at the conference.

Talkmore Chidede, tralac researcher, participated at the 2nd Annual Southern Africa International Arbitration Conference (SAIAC 2017) held on November 15th and 16th in Johannesburg, South Africa

Willemien Viljoen, tralac researcher, participated in a panel discussion on Regional Customs Trends during the 6th Annual Africa Transfer Pricing Summit in Cape Town

tralac collaborated with the Namibian Agricultural Trade Forum to present a Workshop on Issues, implications and future scenarios of BREXIT

tralac intern, Taragwa Nyang’anyi, participated in the 2017 Foreign Direct Investment Moot with the team from the University of Barcelona, where he completed his law degree

tralac participated in the SADC-EU Economic Partnership Agreement High-Level Civil Society Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa

The African Union (AU) Boosting Intra-African Trade (BIAT) Trade Information and Trade Finance Workshop was held at the Julius Nyerere International Convention Centre, Dar es Salaam from 13-15 September 2017

On 6 September 2017, tralac in collaboration with Zelna Jansen Consultancy (tralac alumna) hosted an intellectual property (IP) seminar in Cape Town, South Africa.

tralac and the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) have launched a new book examining the agriculture negotiations at the WTO and what a successful agreement might mean for Africa

tralac hosted its 2017 Annual Conference on 6th and 7th April in Cape Town, South Africa. The theme of the Conference was 'International Trade Governance: quo vadis'.

tralac hosted a regional roundtable in Cape Town on 7 February 2017 to consider global, African, and South African trade and trade-related developments of the past year and prospects for 2017