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Africa Thinks Here
On-the-ground business intelligence in South Africa & Eswatini, since July 2019.
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A summit theme built around industrialisation, agriculture and critical minerals reads, at first glance, like a producer's agenda — factories, farms and mines, not shopping baskets. Yet every one of those sectors eventually resolves into a consumer question: does...
Ask a household in Windhoek, Maputo or Dar es Salaam whether SADC's blue economy agenda has changed anything about the fish on their plate or the beach holiday they can afford, and the honest answer, as of this week, is not yet. The 3rd Africa Blue Economy Week,...
A payment-system announcement rarely reaches the person paying for goods. Central bank governors sign communiqués about settlement currencies; the shopper, the online buyer, and the small trader moving cash across a border see none of it directly. Yet this week's...
An industrial strategy is meant to eventually reach a shelf, a price tag or a phone screen. As of 27 July 2026, when SADC opened its ninth annual Industrialisation Week at the Durban International Convention Centre, the region's own consumer goods sector remains...
Orange Botswana has pledged P1m to sponsor the FNB Botswana Golden Grand Prix, a World Athletics Continental Tour meeting set for 26 April 2026.
China has delivered emergency satellite imagery to Nigeria and Ethiopia and software to Cameroon. The shared cooperation centre meant to anchor it all is still under construction.
China lists at least ten African uses for its BeiDou satellites, from precision farming to wildlife tracking. What the record does not yet list is the named centres to run them.
At the 2024 Beijing summit China named the digital economy its next African frontier – 20 projects inside a three-year RMB 360 billion (US$50 billion) package. The detail is thinner than the headline.
The headline China-Africa numbers are loans and ports. The quieter figure: 200,000km of optical fibre and broadband for six million households – infrastructure hard to see and hard to remove.