South Africa’s Beneficiation Mandate Collides With Mining Investment Logic in New Industrial Strategy South Africa’s Department of Trade, Industry and Competition has proposed tying mineral rights allocation to beneficiation conditions, triggering immediate pushback from the Minerals Council and exposing a…
South Africa’s Agricultural Export Ambitions Expose Gaps in Economic Diplomacy and Regional Trade Architecture South Africa’s agribusiness sector is pressing the government to overhaul its trade diplomacy infrastructure and restructure its obligations within the Southern African Customs Union (SACU), as…
OPEC+ Output Increases Offer Little Relief as Hormuz Closure Reshapes West African Fuel Import Costs An OPEC+ decision to raise production quotas by 188,000 barrels per day from July has done little to ease oil prices trading near US$93 per…
As African economies continue to pursue deeper integration and long-term development objectives, the role of private-sector institutions in supporting education, community resilience, and human capital development is receiving increasing attention. Alongside public investment and international development programmes, a growing number…
Supply Chain Power Asymmetries Keep African Workers Poor Despite ILO Living Wage Framework One in five employed people globally live in poverty, and the governance architecture of international supply chains is a primary mechanism sustaining that figure. Across West Africa,…
Tiger Brands Reshapes Portfolio Around Core African Markets: Beacon Exits, King Foods Stays JSE-listed food manufacturer Tiger Brands is executing a deliberate portfolio restructuring that retains its grains-focused King Foods division while divesting the Beacon chocolate brand, a strategic realignment…
Africa’s Structural Dependency Traps: How Colonial Economic Architecture Undermines Continental Sovereignty and Regional Integration Decades after formal independence, Africa’s economic architecture continues to reproduce the extractive logic of colonial governance — a structural reality that directly constrains West African states’…
AfDB 2025 Trade Finance Report: Commercial Bank Retreat and DFI Intervention Define Africa’s Post-Pandemic Financing Architecture The African Development Bank’s fifth Trade Finance Report, released during the Bank Group’s 2025 Annual Meetings in Brazzaville on 28 May 2026, documents a…
South Africa’s Industrial Strategy Seeks Export Diversification and Investment Scale-Up Amid Trade Disruption South Africa’s Department of Trade, Industry and Competition is repositioning the country’s industrial policy architecture around export diversification, green economy transition, and large-scale investment mobilisation, as Minister…
Mbeki’s Africa Day Warning: Implementation Deficits and Land Governance Undermine Continental Development Agenda Former South African President Thabo Mbeki used the 15th edition of his eponymous Africa Day Lecture to deliver a pointed diagnosis of African governance failure: the continent…
