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For most of the people who actually cross at Kazungula — traders carrying goods between Zambian and Botswanan markets, bus passengers, small operators moving between towns on either bank of the Zambezi — the ferry was never an abstraction. It was a queue, sometimes a...
A regional bloc has just told its 400 million-odd citizens what kind of economy it intends to build for them by 2050 — "peaceful, inclusive, competitive, middle- to high-income industrialised" — without saying, in the same document, what any of that means...
A regional shopper in Lusaka, Maputo or Gaborone still buys most manufactured goods as if the Southern African Development Community were sixteen separate markets rather than one. That is the contradiction sitting inside SADC's restated ambition to raise...
Oscar Habeenzu, a Coffee Tourist, is a Web Developer with a website project portfolio of over 950 websites since 1999 in several African countries and across the world in multiple spoken languages. Oscar Habeenzu and Associates (OHa) is a group comprising web...
A brochure is not a receipt. On 16 August 2020, the SADC Secretariat, working with the Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC), published the 40th SADC Summit Brochure, a document built to record "the achievements of the past year" for a...
A regional bloc can elevate connectivity to the top of its ten-year planning agenda without a single household getting a faster or cheaper internet connection as a result. That is the gap between policy and lived experience that this month's development exposes....
Six months into border closures that emptied lodges from the Okavango to the Garden Route, the contradiction facing SADC's tourism planners is stark: the region's multi-country travel product — the Kruger-to-Kaza circuit, the Victoria Falls gateway shared by...
Cabanga Academy is a consulting academy that teaches Digital the African Way, in South Africa, Botswana, and Zambia, run by Kufunga Cabanga Group and its partners. Through its partners such as Step By Step Consulting Group SA, OpenKasi Foundation, BM School (Zambia,...
A shopper in Lusaka, a small trader in Blantyre and a supermarket buyer in Gaborone are, this month, discovering the same thing from different vantage points: the goods on shelves depend on a customs process most consumers never think about. As national lockdowns...