The decision was approved by the Council of Ministers on April 10, 2026. It grants the Autorité de Régulation et de Contrôle des Marchés des Substances Minérales Stratégiques (Arecoms) powers to ...

Protocols have been negotiated and adopted but are not yet in force. They deal with Competition Policy, Investment, Intellectual Property Rights, Women and Youth in Trade and Digital Trade. The ...

South Africa’s recent accession to African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) Establishment Treaty as its 54th sovereign member could not have come at a more opportune moment. The global economy, ...

The Minister of Trade, Industry and Competition, Parks Tau, will on Monday officiate the launch of Invest South Africa’s One Stop Shop (OSS) in the Northern Cape. The OSS initiative is aimed at ...

New Transnet Container Fee Signals Rising Costs for South Africa’s Trade Lifeline (Joburg ETC) South Africa’s already strained logistics system is about to feel another pinch.... Eswatini excluded ...

Alan Wm. Wolff is Deputy Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO). He began his four-year term in this position on 1 October 2017. He was formerly Senior Counsel at the global law firm ...

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 ...

Mercy Mugala Ng’ambi is a Standardisation and Quality-Assurance Inspector, involved in trade compliance enforcement (inspection, testing and certification). She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Production ...

Dr. Ify Ogo is a legal economist and trade specialist. Her experience includes working as the UNDP Regional Coordination Specialist on the AfCFTA, as well as Trade Policy Expert at the African Trade ...

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 ...

Dawid van Wyk is a retired Professor of Law. He taught public law at the University of South Africa. In retirement he keeps himself busy with ad hoc research and editing.

Protocol on Women and Youth in Trade (hereinafter the Protocol) is the legal instrument designed for advancing the participation of women and youth in intra African trade and integration. Women ...