Data centres emerged as a major force shaping global investment in 2025, according to preliminary data published in a report on 20 January by UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD). Announced foreign ...

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 ...

Government officials have hailed a major milestone as South Africa’s exports under the African Continental Free Trade Area preferences hit R820 million in 2025, fuelling growth in trade across the ...

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 ...

SA plays down US trade tensions at Davos, insists investment momentum remains intact (DFA) TeamSA in Davos has brushed aside concerns that the country's ongoing trade tension with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...