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Zimbabwe is paying $400 million Afreximbank debt with platinum exports (Business Insider Africa) The southern African nation’s reliance on its platinum resources to secure borro...

Economy moves ‘sideways’ with marginal 0.2% contraction in GDP (Engineering News) Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) has reported a marginal 0.2% contraction in gross domestic...

White Paper on electric vehicles released (SAnews) Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel has released a White Paper that outlines a comprehensive electric vehicle...

South Africa: Cape Town Port Fully Operational After Delays In Container Offloads (allAfrica) Operations have returned to normal at the Port of Cape Town after reported delays exp...

Despite no consensus on global plastics instrument, South Africa is making progress (Engineering News) While the third meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC)...

100 000 containers now stuck outside three SA ports – as new penalties and price hikes loom (Engineering News) In recent weeks, container ships have been bypassing the congested...

South Africa’s logistics crisis: lion’s share of economy at risk (Freight News) Sixty per cent of South Africa’s economy is at risk because of the “high inefficiencies and...

President Cyril Ramaphosa visits Port of Richards Bay (South African Government) President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday, 23 November 2023, visited the Port of Richards Bay to asses...

Kenya has vast growth potential in aviation and technology (The Standard) The air transport industry in Africa is on the resurgence, and aviation is definitely the next infrastruc...

Media Release: First Climate Change Legislation Underway in Parliament, Speaker Tells SADC Counterparts (Parliament of the Republic of South Africa) The Speaker of the National As...

Raising South Africa’s Economic Prospects by Curbing Crime (World Bank) The impact of crime on South Africa’s economic prospects is high and broad-based, according to a World ...

South Africa: Major Crisis at South Africa’s Ports (allAfrica) Delays in container offloading at Durban port, Richards Bay port and Cape Town port is once again highlighting the...

Climate Action Key to Kenya’s Upper-Middle-Income Country Aspirations (World Bank) Kenya remains vulnerable to frequent climatic shocks that pose significant economic risk. With...

Gas-supply cliff is South Africa’s next crisis, energy body says (Engineering News) South Africa’s supply of natural gas is set to plunge within the next three to four years a...

Botswana Science, Technology and Innovation Foresight (UNCTAD) UNCTAD conducted a Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) Policy Review of the Republic of Botswana during 20...

Agriculture key to SA’s economic recovery (SAnews) Agriculture, Land Reform and Rural Development Minister, Thoko Didiza, says the agricultural sector has demonstrated its resil...

Kenya, Uganda drive simplified trade regime for entrepreneurs (Nile Post) The First Deputy Prime Minister for East African Community Affairs, Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga, has emphasis...

Government clarifies AgriBEE requirements for agricultural exports to the European and UK markets (Department of Agriculture, Land Reform, and Rural Development) The Department of...

Remarks by the Deputy President of South Africa, H.E Mr Paul Mashatile, on the occasion of the inaugural Saudi-Africa Summit in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, King Abdulaziz Internat...

Cabinet decision to allow cheaper cement imports hits local market (New Zimbabwe) The decision by the cabinet to allow cheaper cement imports is likely to trigger chaos among loca...