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30 Aug 2023Daily NewsNEV disruption holds opportunities for OEMs, component manufacturers (Engineering News)
The world is at the beginning of the biggest disruption to the automotive industry in 100 y...
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29 Aug 2023Daily NewsSouth Africa missed the boat on some localisation opportunities, but higher value industries can be pursued (Engineering News)
The latest research from policy research entity Trad...
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28 Aug 2023Daily NewsSouth Africa: Draft Freight Logistics Roadmap promised by year-end (Engineering News)
A new ‘Freight Logistics Roadmap’ is currently undergoing an internal government consulta...
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25 Aug 2023Daily NewsSouth Africa: Panel agrees agriculture can only grow through impactful collaboration (Engineering News)
With the South African agriculture sector not enjoying the same level of St...
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23 Aug 2023Daily NewsTaking Uganda-South Africa trade and investment forward (The Independent Uganda)
Latest data from the Bank of Uganda shows that the East African nation and South Africa’s trade ...
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22 Aug 2023Daily NewsSustaining existing trade partnerships and finding new markets is imperative for SA agriculture (Bizcommunity)
South Africa is in the enviable position of being a net exporter of ...
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20 Aug 2023Daily NewsSouth Africa foreign policy in a tangle (CAJ News Africa)
This year will go down the annals of history as one in which the southern African nation faced the greatest dilemma in ju...
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18 Aug 2023Daily NewsSouth Africa still mulling design for sustainable automotive industry (Engineering News)
South Africa’s automotive manufacturing sector is widely regarded as a success story; ho...
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17 Aug 2023Daily NewsBRICS: SA-China trade is nothing unfair, says SA Chamber of Commerce (IOL)
South Africa should improve its industrialisation and manufacturing capacity in a bid to balance the tra...
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16 Aug 2023Daily NewsSouth Africa taking an average of 25 months to complete tariff investigations, report shows (Engineering News)
It is currently taking an average of 25 months for government to com...
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15 Aug 2023Daily NewsSouth Africa likely to keep preferential US trade access, envoy says (Engineering News)
South Africa will likely keep its preferential access to US markets because hundreds of Ame...
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14 Aug 2023Daily NewsEconomists see South Africa averting second-quarter contraction (Engineering News)
South Africa’s economy probably avoided a contraction in the second quarter, despite record po...
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11 Aug 2023Daily NewsPatel stresses importance of China-South Africa trade (Engineering News)
Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel has welcomed the August 10 signing of trade and pur...
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10 Aug 2023Daily NewsSouth Africa’s manufacturing improved in June 2023 (IG)
The manufacturing sector has demonstrated an impressive performance in June 2023, showing a 5.5% increase in production (...
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09 Aug 2023Daily NewsAgro-processing Master Plan will help SA sow AfCFTA benefits (IOL)
Targeted Spatial Agricultural development in South Africa: operationalising the Agriculture and Agroprocessing M...
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04 Aug 2023Daily NewsSouth African farmers want WTO dispute declared over EU citrus rules (Engineering News)
South African citrus farmers want their government to lodge a complaint against the Europea...
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03 Aug 2023Daily NewsIndustrial policy changes needed, TIPS forum hears (Engineering News)
Academics and researchers have highlighted some of the policy changes needed within a changing global economy...
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02 Aug 2023Daily NewsGlobal demand for coal is bringing mayhem to South African towns (Engineering News)
An often impenetrable logjam of trucks laden with coal at South Africa’s crossing with Mozamb...
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01 Aug 2023Daily NewsSouth Africa: Trade balance dipped unexpectedly in June (The Citizen)
South Africa’s merchandise trade balance unexpectedly dipped in June, with the value of the country’s exp...
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31 Jul 2023Daily NewsTrade statistics for June 2023 (South African Revenue Service)
South Africa recorded a preliminary trade balance deficit of R3.5 billion in June 2023. This deficit is attributable...
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