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The global economy is being reshaped, and countries everywhere are building new trade, investment and supply routes to diversify their partnerships and secure the inputs that will power future growth. South Africa and India are unusually well placed to build one of those routes together. On 12 August 2026, India and the Southern African Customs…

Africa has spent decades lowering tariffs, building regional institutions and negotiating market access, but trade has delivered far less structural transformation than its scale might suggest. The continent’s challenge is increasingly not whether it trades, but whether its economies are connected deeply enough for trade to generate manufacturing, productivity gains and jobs.