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NEPAD Business Foundation (NBF) today announced the appointment of Mr. Ian Hirschfeld and Ms. Iddah Asin to the Board of Directors. Mr. Ian Hirschfeld joins the Board currently serving as Director for Economic Policy & Regulatory: Africa at Coca-Cola Africa, and Ms Iddah Asin joins the Board currently serving as Head of Government Affairs and […]

By Greg Nott When NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa’s Development) was adopted some 20 years ago by the African Union in 2002, it was a time of extraordinary African leadership and the birthing of the vision of an African renaissance. Then-South African President Thabo Mbeki and the former president of Senegal, Abdoulaye Wade, were founding

Johannesburg, 16 August 2022 – The Southern African Development Community (SADC) Tourism Business Platform (TBP) has officially launched following a consultative process that started over a year ago with representatives from the 16 SADC Member States. The main objective of the TBP is to address tourism barriers and advance the sustainable development of the regional

The Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality in partnership with the South African Breweries and the Strategic Water Partners Network (SWPN) established a water partnership to help solve the water crisis in Nelson Mandela Bay. The prolonged below average rainfall in catchment areas and declining water levels at the dams supplying the towns of Gqeberha, Kariega and Despatch, coupled with associated constraints

The Nedbank Group and the NEPAD Business Foundation (NBF) hosted the Nedbank-NBF Networking Forum themed, “Greening SADC towards Vision 2030: Coordinating public and private-sector collaboration to accelerate SADC’s just transition strategy”. The event was hosted at the Nedbank Head Office in August 2022. The aim of this engagement was to develop a roadmap of how

Johannesburg, 16 August 2022 – Non-tariff barriers (NTBs) are generally defined as any kind of ‘red tape’ or trade rules, regulations and procedures, other than tariffs that unjustifiably restrict the flow of goods and services. NTBs may take the form of quantitative restrictions, discriminatory taxes or excessive document requirements applied on imports, unduly discriminatory rules of

The Southern African Developed Community (SADC) Business Council and the GIZ Co-operation for the Enhancement of SADC Regional Economic Integration Programme have been working together since 2020 to remove non-tariff barriers in the SADC region. Non-tariff barriers are generally defined as any kind of ‘red tape’ or trade rules, regulations and procedures, other than tariffs