A new World Bank report reveals that transportation inefficiencies are causing significant food losses in Africa. Thirty-seven percent of locally produced food is lost in transit due to slow ...

Finance Deputy Minister Ashor Sarupen has told investors and the construction sector that government is ready to partner with the private sector to drive infrastructure build in South Africa. The ...

The official visit by a South African delegation to Washington (under the leadership of President Ramaphosa) on 21 May 2025 took place against the background of a tense political relationship. The ...

Infrastructure investment remains a key component in driving economic growth and government has maintained its R1 trillion allocation for infrastructure investment over the medium term to support this ...

The African Development Bank Group’s Regional Development and Business Delivery Office for Southern Africa last week brought together more than 30 key service providers to strengthen collaboration and ...

President Ramaphosa visited Washington.... What next? (tralac) The official visit by a South African delegation to Washington (under the leadership of President Ramaphosa) on 21 M ...

The combined, textile, apparel and footwear manufacturing industry remains Lesotho’s largest formal private sector employer – employing around 46 500 workers. Its current employment is below its early ...

Since 2017, South Africa has been experiencing a trade surplus with most trading partners with the exception of Asia (with total trade of exports + imports at ZAR 1.3 trillion) where the dominance of ...

Since the 1980s, the Regional Economic Communities (RECs) have been identified as a key element in African regional integration. [1] This approach continues in the context of the African Continental ...

Registration to the tralac website is required to download publications. As the drive to achieve net zero intensifies, the demand for critical minerals, essential ...

Will the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) be a rules-based dispensation? What is required in order to become one? The Preamble to the Agreement establishing the AfCFTA promises “clear, ...