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On-the-ground business intelligence in South Africa & Eswatini, since July 2019.
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A regional seed standard is only as useful as the quarantine post, testing laboratory or bonded warehouse that gives it physical effect at a border. SADC's harmonised approach to seed, pesticides and agricultural inputs is, in that sense, a demand signal for a...
Sixteen SADC member states have just backed a private-sector platform to integrate tourism across the region, yet the physical infrastructure that tourism depends on — border posts, airports, road corridors connecting national parks and coastal resorts — remains as...
Every humanitarian operations centre eventually needs a roof. That obvious fact is easy to lose in a summit communique, where the news is the institutional decision, not the built asset behind it — but for construction, warehousing and logistics-property operators...
Tourism is one of the most infrastructure-dependent sectors in the SADC region: it depends on roads and rail reaching border posts, on airports and air routes connecting national capitals to secondary tourism nodes, on power and water reaching remote lodges, and on...
The North-South Corridor is, on a map, a single continuous route: Durban through Johannesburg, into Botswana and Zimbabwe, on to Lusaka, Lubumbashi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Lilongwe and Blantyre in Malawi. On the ground, it is a sequence of separately...
Sandton, dubbed as the wealthiest square mile in Africa, is a different world from many African cities, and if you pay close attention, you can capture the detail that went in and still goes into making it work - the infrastructure. In several spontaneous shots, Oscar...
The North-South Corridor is often described in SADC planning documents as a single piece of infrastructure, a road and rail spine running roughly 4,000 kilometres from the port of Durban to the Copperbelt and beyond. In practice, it is seven separate national border...
A road, a rail line and a power interconnector do not stop being separate assets just because a regional plan says they should function as one system. That is the practical tension facing engineers and financiers reading SADC's consolidated climate and...
The conservation areas at the centre of the Boundless Southern Africa Programme were carved, in most cases, directly across national boundaries that pre-date them by a century, and the roads, border posts, veterinary fences and power lines serving those landscapes...