The Southern African Telecommunications Association (Sata) plans to lobby regulators and mobile operators in Southern Africa to implement a flat data roaming fee for people travelling between ...

This trade brief examines the utilisation of tariff rate quotas (TRQs) under the EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) in 2024. This trade agreement between the European Union (EU) on the one ...

But the transaction cost of remittances to African countries remain higher than any other region. Although costs are coming down, they are doing so slowly and it is almost certain that the 2015 United ...

Parties involved in Guinea’s giant Simandou iron-ore mine, widely regarded as the biggest current mining project in the world, expect production to start late this year. This is a considerable ...

The 2025 tralac Annual Conference is taking place 15-16 May in Nairobi, Kenya.

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment’s National Web-Based Environmental Screening Tool is now fully operational. This was announced on Thursday by Forestry, Fisheries and the ...

Despite US President Donald Trump reversing 30% tariffs on South African exports, Washington’s trade war with China will likely spill over to the rest of the world, and billions of rands worth of ...

President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday that trade between countries must remain “free, predictable and governed by a rules-based system”, particularly for developing economies, many of which he said ...

New environmental screening platform for projects in South Africa now fully operational (Engineering News) The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment’s National W ...

Botswana has lifted its ban on fresh vegetable imports from South Africa after it struggled to meet local demand solely from domestic production. The ban, imposed in 2022, was lifted in two phases — ...

South Africa recorded a preliminary trade balance surplus of R20.9 billion in February 2025. This surplus was attributable to exports of R164.0 billion and imports of R143.1 billion, inclusive of ...