Tag: Agriculture

SA agricultural exports amounted to $3.4bn in second quarter (IOL) South Africa’s agricultural exports amounted to $3.4 billion (R64bn) in the second quarter of this year, up by...

SA losing $62bn a year due to illicit financial flows (Moneyweb) South Africa is losing more than $62 billion a year because of illicit financial flows (IFFs), which could be used...

Africa Climate Summit Outcome document The African Leaders Nairobi Declaration on Climate Change and Call to Action - 6 September 2023   Africa Climate Summit ends with ca...

SA component industry pledges R4.8bn in investments (Engineering News) The South Africa component industry will invest R4.8-billion in the South African economy up to the end of n...

SARS records R16 billion trade boost for South Africa (BusinessTech) South Africa saw a preliminary trade balance surplus of R16.0 billion in July 2023, data from the South Africa...

South Africa still mulling design for sustainable automotive industry (Engineering News) South Africa’s automotive manufacturing sector is widely regarded as a success story; ho...

BRICS: SA-China trade is nothing unfair, says SA Chamber of Commerce (IOL) South Africa should improve its industrialisation and manufacturing capacity in a bid to balance the tra...

South Africa taking an average of 25 months to complete tariff investigations, report shows (Engineering News) It is currently taking an average of 25 months for government to com...

South Africa likely to keep preferential US trade access, envoy says (Engineering News) South Africa will likely keep its preferential access to US markets because hundreds of Ame...

Economists see South Africa averting second-quarter contraction (Engineering News) South Africa’s economy probably avoided a contraction in the second quarter, despite record po...

Patel stresses importance of China-South Africa trade (Engineering News) Trade, Industry and Competition Minister Ebrahim Patel has welcomed the August 10 signing of trade and pur...

South Africa’s manufacturing improved in June 2023 (IG) The manufacturing sector has demonstrated an impressive performance in June 2023, showing a 5.5% increase in production (...

Agro-processing Master Plan will help SA sow AfCFTA benefits (IOL) Targeted Spatial Agricultural development in South Africa: operationalising the Agriculture and Agroprocessing M...

South African farmers want WTO dispute declared over EU citrus rules (Engineering News) South African citrus farmers want their government to lodge a complaint against the Europea...

Industrial policy changes needed, TIPS forum hears (Engineering News) Academics and researchers have highlighted some of the policy changes needed within a changing global economy...

Global demand for coal is bringing mayhem to South African towns (Engineering News) An often impenetrable logjam of trucks laden with coal at South Africa’s crossing with Mozamb...

South Africa: Trade balance dipped unexpectedly in June (The Citizen) South Africa’s merchandise trade balance unexpectedly dipped in June, with the value of the country’s exp...

Trade statistics for June 2023 (South African Revenue Service) South Africa recorded a preliminary trade balance deficit of R3.5 billion in June 2023. This deficit is attributable...

Somalia’s Institutions get a Boost to Help Bring the Country Closer to Debt Relief (World Bank) Somalia's efforts toward building strong institutions received a boost with a new...

South Africa Seeks to Halt Used Rail Track Exports to Curb Theft (Bloomberg) South Africa’s trade minister proposed new regulations to prohibit the export of used rail tracks an...