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Africa Thinks Here
On-the-ground business intelligence in South Africa & Eswatini, since July 2019.
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A patient who crosses a border does not stop needing care, but in much of the Southern African Development Community she does stop having a record. Treatment started in one country rarely follows a mobile patient into the next, and a health system built around fixed...
A regional visitor booking a safari in northern Tanzania and a beach extension in Mozambique still has to reason through two visa regimes, two mobile-money ecosystems and two sets of consumer-protection rules to complete a single holiday. That friction is the...
A regional broadband gap analysis and a cross-border computer incident response framework do not, by themselves, lower the price of a mobile data bundle or make a rural bank agent easier to reach. That is the gap between this week's SADC ministerial outcomes and...
Social Media has shaped many economies, as it is the frontier of technology at present, and the Botswana economy is no exception, whether or not it has little over a million internet users. Whilst Botswana’s population is 2.3 million and internet users are just over...
In Zambia, the most used social network is Facebook, followed by LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and then Twitter on number five. Generally, Zambians in Zambia are not using social media as much as can be used, due to literacy, availability of relevant content and cost...
A shopper in Lusaka or Maputo rarely sees a customs form, yet its cost is embedded in every regionally sourced product on the shelf — in the delayed restock, the narrower selection of neighbouring-country brands, and the price premium that non-tariff friction quietly...
A treaty adopted by heads of state on 17 August 2019 will not, this week, change what a shopper in Lusaka, Maputo or Gaborone pays for a locally processed good instead of an imported one. That gap — between a legal instrument signed at summit level and a shelf price a...
There can never be a conversation of a Digital Economy without the social aspects of the same, and social media networks are at the centre of that subject, even in South Africa. Your business or brand in South Africa, can no longer afford to ignore YouTube, Facebook,...
A regional bloc can hold a meeting about broadband and still leave the person buying data bundles in Lusaka, Maputo or Gaborone with no idea anything happened. That is the contradiction inside SADC's institutional record as of 20 November 2018. The Secretariat...