South Africa’s national standards for spatial information were gazetted at the end of June 2026 under the Spatial Data Infrastructure Act, the legislation that established the South African Spatial Data Infrastructure, or Sasdi. It is easy to file a new regulatory gazette under technical housekeeping. This one is different. We believe it could unlock billions…
Executive Summary Africa’s industrialisation challenge is not primarily a shortage of ideas, policy intent, or entrepreneurial energy, but a constraint in financial architecture and capital deployment. The continent’s ability to build factories, infrastructure, and value-added industries is limited by the cost, structure, and accessibility of long-term finance. Until capital markets are deepened and better aligned…
Why good African businesses and projects can struggle to cross the funding redline Africa has never suffered from a shortage of ideas. It suffers from a shortage of capital willing to believe in those ideas. Across the continent, entrepreneurs are building businesses, engineers are designing infrastructure, farmers are developing agricultural value chains, innovators are creating…
Zimbabwe ended last month as Africa’s best-performing equity market, overtaking Nigeria, the continent’s most populous nation, after months of sustained gains driven by easing inflation, a more stable domestic currency, and renewed investor appetite for local equities. Data from African Markets, a real-time market intelligence platform, shows the Zimbabwe Stock Exchange (ZSE) returned 68.5 percent…
James Woods, the Malawian diplomat and sports-business figure who was part of a sports group who backed Yan Diomande in the early years of his career, reflects on the making of a €140m footballer Four years ago, Yan Diomande was an unknown teenager, his name familiar only to the small network of scouts and agents…
Luanda — Participants at the 21st Meeting of Senior Officials of the Coordination Committee of the Africa-Arab Partnership reaffirmed, on Thursday (6), in Cairo, Egypt, the relevance of organizing the Economic Forum between the two regions. According to the final communiqué of the event, it should take place on the sidelines of the 5th Africa-Arab…
For years, African finance ministers have made the same case at investor conferences and multilateral summits: the continent is not short of bankable projects, it is short of affordable capital. This week, that case took a tangible step forward. Legal & General Asset Management, one of Britain’s largest institutional investors, launched the L&G LSF African…
Vaccines have been reliably and affordably protecting people from diseases worldwide for centuries. Until the COVID-19 pandemic, however, vaccine development was still a long and idiosyncratic process. Traditionally, researchers had to tailor manufacturing processes and facilities for each vaccine candidate, and the scientific knowledge gained from one vaccine was often not directly transferable to another….
South Africa’s pursuit of sporting excellence is about more than winning medals, lifting trophies or achieving victories on the global stage. It is about building a nation that believes in its potential, invests in its people and creates opportunities for every South African to excel. As we mark Mandela Month, we are reminded of Nelson…
The CAF Executive Committee (“EXCO”) unanimously endorses the “Joint Update” by the FIFA President and Secretary General on the FIFA Forward Enterprise and will continue to focus on making African Football amongst the best in the world and adhering to governance and transparency global best practices. The Confédération Africaine de Football (“CAF”) today unanimously endorsed…
