South Africa released its pdf Critical Minerals and Metals Strategy (2.23 MB) for public comment on 20 May 2025. It is a polished and insightful document, reflecting the input of ...

Ninth SACU Summit postponed (Informanté) “We regret to inform you that the 9th SACU Summit of Heads of State or Government, which was scheduled to take place on 27 June 2025 in Windhoek, Namibia, has ...

Introduction of tariffs timeline. After his inauguration as the 47th President of the US, Donald Trump issued just over 200 Executive Orders. They dealt mainly with measures to undo the policies of ...

A signs US$1.5 billion loan with World Bank (SAnews). The South African government and the World Bank have signed a US$1.5 billion Development Policy Loan Agreement that will assist in unlocking key ...

SA views G7 as strategic partner in several areas (SAnews). South Africa views the Group of Seven (G7) as a strategic partner in its efforts to drive climate resilience, promote a just energy ...

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 ...

Patrick Low, a Kenyan and Spanish national, is a Fellow at the Asia Global Institute of the University of Hong Kong and a Senior Adviser for Tulip Consulting. He currently works in an advisory ...

1. BACKGROUND. The Trade Law Centre (tralac), a trade-related capacity building organisation based in South Africa, has received core funding support from the Swedish International Development ...

South Africa’s GDP vulnerable of sliding into negative territory after barely growing in the first quarter (Engineering News). South Africa‘s gross domestic product (GDP) increased by 0.1% in the ...

Mining is expected to be a major driver of Africa’s development for the next few years. However, in many African jurisdictions, the industry is far from stable and needs to perform a complicated ...

On 2 April 2025, President Trump announced an unparalleled increase in tariffs on goods imported into the US from most of its trading partners. A 10% baseline tariff was announced along with steeper ...