Speaking at the Crystal Ball Africa 2026 forum held at the Labadi Beach Hotel on January 22, the veteran legal strategist and analyst warned that the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) is ...

South African exporters urged to harness UK trade pact benefits (Bizcommunity) Since its inception, the EPA has enabled South African exporters to save tariffs on R50 billion worth of goods shipped to ...

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 ...

Trudi Hartzenberg is the Executive Director of tralac. She has a special interest in trade-related capacity building. Her research areas include trade policy issues, regional integration, investment, ...

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 ...

Maria Immanuel is an international trade expert and a tralac Alumna based in Windhoek, Namibia. She makes music and is a Digital trade entrepreneur.

Dumase Sara Lwando Shawa is a development professional with a master’s in development studies, specialising in public policy and management, project management, and regulatory expertise. She has ...

A delegation of South African Ministers will showcase the country’s economic progress, reform momentum and investment potential at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland next week. The ...

Bonani Nyhodo is an employee of the National Agricultural Marketing Council (NAMC) with over 20 years of experience working in the agricultural policy space. He holds a Master of Science (MSc) in ...

World Bank’s South African GDP growth forecast shows local reforms working – GCIS (Engineering News) The World Bank’s outlook projects that GDP growth in South Africa will increase to 1.4% this year ...

The US House of Representatives has passed a three-year extension of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), offering a potential lifeline for the US’s flagship trade initiative with the ...

A coalition of exporters, importers and traders has kicked against plans by the Ghana Shippers’ Authority (GSA) to make the Smart Port Note (SPN) mandatory from February 1, 2026, warning that the ...