The ECA Office for North Africa held on 9-12 September 2025 a capacity building workshop under the theme: “Unlocking AfCFTA Opportunities: Capacity building for youth and female-led SMEs in Libya and ...

Ndiitah Nghipondoka-Robiati is Chief Executive Officer, Namibia Trade Forum. Before joining NTF in April 2014, she was a lecturer in the Department of Agricultural Economics at the University of ...

South Africa’s fishing industry has secured access to export fish and fish products from listed fisheries to the United States beyond January 2026. This comes after South Africa’s fish products were ...

Dr. Ify Ogo is a legal economist and trade specialist. Her experience includes working as the UNDP Regional Coordination Specialist on the AfCFTA, as well as Trade Policy Expert at the African Trade ...

George Chikondi Lwanda is a regional programme and policy advisor with the UNDP Africa Centre, a 2018 Asia Global Fellow at the Asia Global Institute at the Hong Kong University, and an alum of the Mo ...

Beatrice Chaytor is an international trade lawyer, called to the Bar in England and Wales as well as Sierra Leone, with over 30 years’ experience in providing advice and support to NGO’s, governments ...

Ms Viola Sawere has over 15 years’ experience in international trade policy, private sector development and multi-stakeholder dialogue. She holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) ...

Two years is how long it could take to help an entrepreneur get finance-ready before they can unlock government funding, seeking to reindustrialise South Africa in the face of US President Donald ...

Agriculture, gross domestic product’s (GDP’s) saviour in the first quarter, substantially grew overall income in 2023, according to Statistics South Africa’s latest data print. The sector, dominated ...

Firms across steel value chain gear up to reply to Itac’s sweeping tariff proposal (Engineering News) Companies across South Africa‘s steel value chain are gearing up to submit responses to a ...

Automotive Industry Transformation Fund tasked to track rollout of auto masterplan (Engineering News) The Automotive Industry Transformation Fund (AITF) has assumed the role of Executive Oversight ...

Economic and regulatory constraints are putting South Africa’s fuel supply at risk (Engineering News) South Africa’s fuel supply system is under strain, as the country continues to rely heavily on ...