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African countries could unlock billions in local and global trade – what’s working and what’s not

Logistics & Transport

African countries could unlock billions in local and global trade – what’s working and what’s not

Bedassa Tadesse 13 Jun 2024

Sentech Africa Tech Week 2024: Shaping Africa's tech future

Marketing & Media

Sentech Africa Tech Week 2024: Shaping Africa's tech future

Issued by Topco Media 17 Apr 2024

SA citrus exports predicted to grow despite challenges

Agriculture

SA citrus exports predicted to grow despite challenges

4 Apr 2024

Dina Biagio, Partner & Patent Attorney, Spoor & Fisher

Legal

#BizTrends2024: Shaping the future of IP law in 2024 and beyond

Dina Biagio 16 Jan 2024

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ESG & Sustainability

Trade rules and climate change: Africa stands to lose from proposed WTO policy tools

Olabisi D. Akinkugbe 18 Dec 2023

Source: Supplied. His Highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and His Majesty King Charles III open the inaugural Business & Philanthropy Climate Forum.

Finance

UAE launches groundbreaking COP28 Business and Philanthropy Climate Forum

1 Dec 2023

Citrus exports plummet as SA growers face mounting challenges

Agriculture

Citrus exports plummet as SA growers face mounting challenges

23 Nov 2023

SEIFSA concerned over scrap metal export ban extension

Construction & Engineering

SEIFSA concerned over scrap metal export ban extension

21 Nov 2023

Making cotton sustainable requires science, investment and governance

Retail

Making cotton sustainable requires science, investment and governance

5 Oct 2023

Healthcare

Phaahla urges Brics nations to maintain vigilance against Covid-19

8 Aug 2023

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Agriculture

SA farmers want WTO dispute declared over EU citrus rules

Nelson Banya 4 Aug 2023

South Africa is exporting more food. But it needs to find new growth frontiers

Agriculture

South Africa is exporting more food. But it needs to find new growth frontiers

Wandile Sihlobo 7 Mar 2023

Source © Bowie15 A panel at the recent inaugural AWAfrica examined the need for Africans to claim their share of the global creative economy

Marketing & Media

Unpacking Africa's limited involvement in the multi-billion dollar global creative economy

7 Mar 2023

SA citrus calls on presidential support in EU orange export battle

Agriculture

SA citrus calls on presidential support in EU orange export battle

17 Feb 2023

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Legal

An update on free trade in Africa

Virusha Subban 17 Nov 2022

Retail

How used clothes became part of Africa's creative economy - and fashion sense

Karen Tranberg Hansen 12 Aug 2022

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Legal

Minister suspends anti-dumping duties for frozen chicken imports

2 Aug 2022

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Legal

US and Kenya sign strategic trade and investment partnership

Virusha Subban 29 Jul 2022

Learnings from the pandemic: How local SMEs can cushion the blow of the war

Entrepreneurship

Learnings from the pandemic: How local SMEs can cushion the blow of the war

5 May 2022

#BizTrends2022: Taking Africa's aviation sector to the skies

Logistics & Transport

#BizTrends2022: Taking Africa's aviation sector to the skies

Khangi Khoza 6 Jan 2022

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Healthcare

Pandemic lesson: Africa must rely on itself

23 Sep 2021

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Healthcare

Nobel laureates call for waiving of IP Covid-19 rules

14 Sep 2021

SA's rooibos industry receives EU certificate of registration for PDO

Agriculture

SA's rooibos industry receives EU certificate of registration for PDO

24 Aug 2021

Regional status to SA's rooibos tea can turn fortunes for crop

Agriculture

Regional status to SA's rooibos tea can turn fortunes for crop

Tanisha Heiberg and Mike Hutchings 12 Aug 2021

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Marketing & Media

#NedbankIMC2021: Spoofy octopus, the diversity jungle and being true to yourself

Nicci Botha 30 Jul 2021

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Healthcare

Covid-19 vaccine plant in Africa? This is what it would take to build one

23 Jun 2021

World Health Organisation (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus speaks as he attends the World Health Assembly (WHA) amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Geneva, Switzerland, 24 May 2021. Christopher Black/World Health Organisation/Handout via Reuters

Healthcare

WHO setting up hub to make Covid-19 vaccines in South Africa - Tedros

22 Jun 2021

Use the Africa free-trade area to create jobs and enable entrepreneurship for the youth

Logistics & Transport

Use the Africa free-trade area to create jobs and enable entrepreneurship for the youth

Lebo Letsoalo 21 Jun 2021

Could vaccine registration negate the good intentions of the Trips waiver?

Legal

Could vaccine registration negate the good intentions of the Trips waiver?

Chyreene Truluck 10 Jun 2021

Protesters gather in Cambridge to demand that AstraZeneca shares blueprints for its Covid-19 vaccine. Luciana Guerra/PA Images via Getty Images

Healthcare

Trips waiver: US support is a major step but no guarantee of Covid-19 vaccine equity

Erin Hannah, James Scott, Silke Trommer & Sophie Harman 13 May 2021

Over 100 countries back Trips waiver on Covid-19 vaccines

Healthcare

Over 100 countries back Trips waiver on Covid-19 vaccines

7 May 2021

US supports waiver of Covid-19 vaccine IP restrictions

Legal

US supports waiver of Covid-19 vaccine IP restrictions

6 May 2021

Hospital staff in Lagos, Nigeria, administer the AstraZeneca vaccine. AP Photo/Sunday Alamba

Healthcare

How to get Covid-19 vaccines to poor countries - and still keep patent benefits for drugmakers

Dalindyebo Shabalala 16 Apr 2021

Workers at India’s biggest syringe manufacturer ramp up production in September 2020 in race to meet Covid-19 vaccine-driven demand. Photo by SAJJAD HUSSAIN/AFP via Getty Images

Healthcare

Why India is banking on health diplomacy to grow African footprint

Dan Banik & Renu Modik 26 Mar 2021

A market place in Ghana’s capital Accra. Developing countries like Ghana risk being left behind in the race to secure Covid-19 vaccines. Christian Thompson/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images

Healthcare

Dummy's guide to how trade rules affect access to Covid-19 vaccines

Caroline Southey 11 Jan 2021

Vaccine rollout: Here is where South Africa stands

Healthcare

Vaccine rollout: Here is where South Africa stands

James Stent 22 Dec 2020

President-elect Joe Biden

Finance

Biden's election bodes well for SA's economy

Raymond Parsons 9 Nov 2020

Fisheries sustainability top agenda at WTO meeting

Agriculture

Fisheries sustainability top agenda at WTO meeting

28 Oct 2020

Restrictions in trade to contain Covid-19 have been devastating for Africa's urban poor

Retail

Restrictions in trade to contain Covid-19 have been devastating for Africa's urban poor

Astrid R.N. Haas and Victoria Delbridge 27 Oct 2020

Tim Ball, IP specialist, Webber Wentzel

Healthcare

India and SA request waiver of Trips Agreement for Covid-19 treatment

Tim Ball 19 Oct 2020

EU and UK are major markets for South African exports, including vehicles. Shutterstock

Finance

Here's why South Africa and its neighbours are anxious about EU and UK post-Brexit trade talks

Mills Soko 21 Sep 2020

GGDA's plans to reignite Gauteng's economy

Entrepreneurship

GGDA's plans to reignite Gauteng's economy

25 Aug 2020

Small businesses in Africa must innovate to survive Covid-19

Entrepreneurship

Small businesses in Africa must innovate to survive Covid-19

Kingsley Ighobor 3 Aug 2020

Russian soldiers march during a Victory Day parade. The country makes guns and armoury as its main beneficiation output. Photo by Dmitry Korotayev/Epsilon/Getty Images

Energy & Mining

South Africa would gain from co-operation among Brics countries on beneficiation

Byelongo Elisée Isheloke 17 Jul 2020

Economic cooperation is the linchpin of the US-SA bilateral relationship. Shutterstock

Finance

South Africa must get ready for an inevitable loosening of trade ties with the US

Mills Soko 2 Jun 2020

Africa Food Security 11 via

Agriculture

Mitigating Covid-19's impact on Africa's food systems

Atsuko Toda and Dr Martin Fregene 17 Apr 2020

The cost of coronavirus in Africa: What measures can leaders take?

ESG & Sustainability

The cost of coronavirus in Africa: What measures can leaders take?

Dorothy Tembo 1 Apr 2020

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Agriculture

Rooibos retains GI protection status in the UK

12 Mar 2020

#BlockchainAfrica: The impact of blockchain on the global economy

ICT

#BlockchainAfrica: The impact of blockchain on the global economy

Ilija Acimovic 4 Mar 2020

Zak Sivalingum; FNB regional director: Gauteng East

Finance

One Africa: Businesses need to drive the AfCFTA

Zak Sivalingum 15 Jan 2020