Tag: SADC
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11 May 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Going digital during pandemic signals a positive change for SMMEs – SBI (Eyewitness News)
While thousands of small businesses crumbled und...
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05 May 21 NewsNational trade and trade-related news
Avian epidemic plunging poultry industry into turmoil (CAJ News)
Stakeholders are divided over South Africa’s prospects of containing the ...
Namibia: intra-Africa trade and tariff profile 2020
23 Apr 21 InfographicsIn 2020, 33% of Namibia’s world exports and 67% of world imports were to and from the rest of Africa. Between 2019 and 2020, Namibia’s intra-Africa exports declined by 24% and ...
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05 Mar 21 NewsCountry focus
MPs talk value addition before ratifying SADC protocol (New Era)
After the tabling of the ratification of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) protocol...
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02 Mar 21 NewsCountry focus
Namibia edges closer to South Africa with customs connectivity (The South African)
Namibia introduced customs connectivity with South Africa in February. The ...
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01 Mar 21 NewsCountry focus
South Africa seeks to lift infrastructure investment with change to pension fund rules (Engineering News)
South Africa's National Treasury is proposing changi...
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19 Jan 21 NewsCountry focus
SA must embrace innovation to rebuild economy: President Ramaphosa (SAnews)
With the COVID-19 pandemic having battered the South African fiscus in 2020, President C...
Post Brexit Trade between the European Union and the United Kingdom
04 Jan 21 BlogThe new EU-UK trade relationship will be very different from when the UK was a Member State. Major governance challenges lie ahead. Concluding a trade agreement is one thing, imple...
Intra-SADC FTA trade and SADC FTA trade with the rest of Africa 2019
24 Nov 20 BlogThe Southern African Development Community (SADC) consists of 16 members – 13 of which are in a free trade area (FTA). The SADC FTA members are Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Madag...
Angola: 2019 intra-Africa trade and tariff profile
23 Nov 20 InfographicsAngola mainly trades with countries beyond the African continent. In 2019 only 4 per cent of Angola’s total trade was intra-Africa trade. On the African continent Angola mainly t...
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09 Nov 20 NewsNational
Critical shortage of building and construction materials in SA (Moneyweb)
Critical shortages of building and construction materials, including cement, steel, bricks and ...
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19 Oct 20 NewsNational
Job creation is key to SA’s economic recovery (SAnews)
As the country recovers from the devastation of the Coronavirus pandemic, President Cyril Ramaphosa has emphasis...
Effects of the COVID-19 Measures on Trade Facilitation in SADC
12 Oct 20 BlogThe COVID-19 pandemic has affected millions of people worldwide and to try and contain the spread of the virus governments the world over have imposed various measures which have l...
COVID-19 Control Measures in SADC – Striking a balance between control and Trade Facilitation
12 Oct 20 BlogThe effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have not spared the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region and like in all other parts of the world, economies of the member stat...
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28 Sep 20 NewsNational news
the dtic and CDE to Host Webinar on SEZS as Drivers of Economic Growth and Industrialisation
The role of the Special Economic Zones (SEZS) as drivers of economic gr...
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28 Aug 20 NewsSA freight and transport industry still far from recovery (Business Report)
The South Africa freight and transport industry was still far from recovery from the negative impa...
Undiversified economies, low intra-trade constrain SADC industrial drive
21 Aug 20 NewsThe quest to transform southern Africa into an industrialised region is being hampered by the declining level of intra-regional trade and the lack of diversification of domestic ec...
H.E. President Nyusi of Mozambique takes over as Chair of SADC, pledging to continue advancing the regional development agenda
17 Aug 20 NewsHis Excellency Filipe Jacinto Nyusi, President of the Republic of Mozambique, on 17th August, 2020 assumed the Chairpersonship of the Southern African Development Community (S...
40th Ordinary Summit of SADC Heads of State and Government held virtually
17 Aug 20 NewsThe 40th Ordinary Summit of the Heads of State and Government of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) was held virtually from Maputo, Mozambique on the 17th ...
SADC commended for reducing impact of COVID-19
17 Aug 20 NewsSADC Member States have been commended for putting in place vibrant measures to mitigate the spread of the novel coronavirus, commonly known as COVID-19.
These measures include in...