A Cabanga Africa Publication
Africa Thinks Here
On-the-ground business intelligence in South Africa & Eswatini, since July 2019.
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An institutional record is only useful to a business audience if it can be verified against something more than a press release. By late 2017, the documentary trail on SADC's investment in regional media capacity around its industrialisation agenda consists of a...
The official record of a regional policy achievement and the evidence that it actually works are two different documents, and they rarely arrive at the same time. As of 1 December 2017, SADC's public institutional record states plainly that the Secretariat has...
SADC's public record on seed harmonisation is confident in tone and thin on the specifics an archivist or an operator actually needs. The Secretariat's own framing states plainly that "without seed, there is no agriculture," and its institutional...
A regional bloc's tourism policy exists, at any given moment, in two separate places: in the communiqués and institutional records that state what ministers formally agreed, and in the wider commentary, forecasts and industry claims that accumulate around it. The...