A P558.2 million contract went to SteelBase Construction in February 2026 for a 60 km road in southern Botswana; residents welcomed the jobs but raised relocation and compensation concerns.
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Property
ATCMA programme launch across SADC: built-market implications for operators
"Quality infrastructure" sounds, to a property or engineering ear, like roads, ports and border posts. In the trade-policy vocabulary SADC and its partners used when they launched the Africa Trade Competitiveness and Market Access programme in Gaborone on 20...
45th SADC Summit across SADC: built-market implications for SADC firms and investors
A corridor strategy is, at bottom, a real-estate and engineering document disguised as a trade policy. The 45th Ordinary Summit of SADC Heads of State and Government, held on 17 August 2025 in Antananarivo, Republic of Madagascar, directed the SADC Secretariat to...
SADC eighth Industrialisation Week: built-market implications — for regional operators
Mineral beneficiation, agro-processing and pharmaceutical manufacturing all require the same unglamorous precondition before a single unit of output can move: a building, connected to power, water and a road or rail line capable of getting product to a border. None of...
Beitbridge efficiency across SADC: built-market implications for operators
Beitbridge sits at the junction of the North-South Corridor, the physical spine linking South African ports to markets as far north as the Democratic Republic of Congo. The contradiction a property and infrastructure analyst should notice in SADC's 24-25 July...
SADC regional leather value chain — built-market implications — for regional operators
A regional leather value chain is, underneath the policy language, a logistics and land-use problem: hides have to move from abattoir to tannery, tannery to finisher, and finisher to market, often crossing at least one border in the process, and each of those...
34th trade ministerial across SADC: built-market implications for regional operators
A tariff schedule can change on a signature. A border post cannot. That mismatch is the structural tension running underneath SADC's 34th Committee of Ministers of Trade, held in Harare on 5 June 2025 — a meeting that reaffirmed protocols, endorsed a scorecard...
SADC regional quality winners — built-market implications for SADC firms and investors
Eswatini Meat Industries can now claim, with independent adjudication behind it, that its product meets an international quality standard. Whether that meat can reach a retail shelf in Lusaka or Dar es Salaam in saleable condition depends on something the award says...
Ndivhuwo Lefosa-Madzivhandila: Breaking Barriers in Construction and Infrastructure Development
Ndivhuwo Lefosa-Madzivhandila is redefining leadership in the construction and infrastructure sector, proving that excellence, sustainability, and economic transformation are not just buzzwords but the pillars of an impactful legacy. As a businesswoman and industry...