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The record of what SADC has actually achieved, at any given moment, is thinner than the record of what it has said it intends to achieve. Communiqués, master plans and strategy documents accumulate steadily; verified, dated evidence of physical delivery is scarcer,...
Zebra Zones: Building Botswana within Special Economic Zones. Botswana has eight SEZs, namely Sir Seretse Khama International Airport (mixed use), Tuli Block (Agropolis), Lobatse (meat and leather), Fairgrounds (international finance and technology), Pandamatenga...
Ford and Special Economic Zones in South Africa. What exactly does the Ford Motor Company know that many investors, local and foreign, do not know about the South African economy? Whilst many industries in South Africa are experiencing Capital flight, the Motor...
On 26 February 2021, SADC's official document repository added two entries — Vision 2050 and the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP) 2020-2030 — that will, over the following decade, be cited as founding authority for every subsequent regional...
How then do we restore and rekindle the industry, which is the gateway to the economy? This is a question being asked and solutions lie in firstly realising that the world, and Botswana, will never be the same because of the pandemic, and from this realisation, a...
A document that calls itself a record of achievement is making a claim, not settling one. That distinction is the starting point for any newsroom trying to establish, as of 5 December 2020, exactly what SADC's public institutional record can and cannot prove...
A regional bloc "updating climate planning to align with global commitments" is the kind of sentence that appears in institutional communiqués constantly and means very little without a paper trail behind it. The contradiction this newsroom has to sit with...
In accounting a company's Balance Sheet is essentially your total assets equaling your total liabilities, with various factors in play; same is for the Social Balance Sheet, wherein there are relational assets and liabilities that make up your balance sheet.
There are 36 million South Africans that use the internet as at January 31st, 2020, being over 60% of the population, moving forward the digital economy. The Digital Economy is a reality to everyone in South Africa, with retail industry leading in ensuring everyone is...