This week, Durban hosted the 9th SADC Industrialisation Week, and on paper it reads like fairly standard regional-summit fare, where government leaders, business delegates and investors gather at the Durban International Convention Centre for five days of panels and exhibition stands. But the theme organisers chose this year, industrialisation built
This week, Durban hosted the 9th SADC Industrialisation Week, and on paper it reads like fairly standard regional-summit fare, where government leaders, business delegates and investors gather at the Durban International Convention Centre for five days of panels and exhibition stands. But the theme organisers chose this year, industrialisation built
For as long as most of us have been alive, the Strait of Hormuz has been treated as a fact of nature. A, narrow strip of water that a fifth of the world’s oil simply had to pass through, war or no war, because there was no real alternative. That
Southern Africa faces a challenge that goes far beyond economic growth rates or budget deficits. According to the African Development Bank’s 2026 Regional Economic Outlook, the region must mobilise development finance at an unprecedented scale to close an annual financing gap of approximately $55 billion. Without it, ambitions around industrialisation,