Day: February 12, 2026

The promise and the gap Africa stands at an inflection point in its economic integration. The African Continental Free Trade Area has catalysed a measurable shift in the way that goods, capital, and services move across the continent, with intra-African trade reaching $208 billion in 2024, a 7.7 percent year-on-year

Speaking at a recent corporate engagement at UCT’s Graduate School of Business, industry leaders, including Isuzu CEO Mr Billy Tom painted a clear picture. Africa’s logistics and trade infrastructure challenges aren’t technical problems, they’re structural, political, and fundamentally about mindset. The Colonial Infrastructure That Still Binds Us Africa’s infrastructure was