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Johannesburg, South Africa - August 23rd, 2025 Cabanga Media Group, publisher of nine regional business magazines and operator of over 100 owned media channels across Africa, has officially launched Cabanga Supplies - a sourcing and supply division created to meet the...
Business owners in Botswana, Namibia, and Angola often share the same frustration: sourcing reliable equipment can be expensive, time-consuming, and risky. From bakery ovens to gas equipment, from pumps to laptops, entrepreneurs are forced to rely on fragmented...
The most reliable record of what SADC actually decided on 17 August 2025 is not the news coverage of the day, nor the political commentary that will follow, but a single seven-page document: the Communiqué of the 45th Ordinary Summit of SADC Heads of State and...
Official communiqués describe intentions. Independent evidence describes outcomes. The gap between the two is precisely what a newsroom exists to hold open, and the eighth SADC Industrialisation Week — opened by Madagascar's President Andry Rajoelina at the...
Institutional achievements in regional trade policy tend to arrive as a single communiqué, stripped of the decade of preceding decisions that made them possible. The contradiction worth correcting here is that SADC's announcement on 28 July 2025, that Beitbridge...
Every regional-bloc commitment eventually becomes a sentence in a communiqué, stripped of the process that produced it. On 24 July 2025, the SADC Secretariat confirmed that member states had committed to deeper regional collaboration on the leather value chain — a...
In today’s fast-evolving digital landscape, African businesses can no longer afford to treat websites as static assets. A website is no longer just an online brochure. It is the hub of your entire digital ecosystem-a living, breathing entity that drives engagement,...
Every regional trade story eventually needs a reference point — the single document a reporter, analyst or operator can return to when a later announcement claims to build on "the June ministerial." For SADC's 34th Committee of Ministers of Trade and...
Most coverage of a regional institution's own press release repeats what that institution says about itself. This guide does something narrower and, for an operator making decisions on the strength of this news, more useful: it separates what SADC's...