Posts by Alastair Tempest
New Logistics Business Model Launches in SA and ‘Hello Tractor’ Operates in Kenya
California-based mobility and urban services platform inDrive has launched a name-your-price freight service in SA, targeting small businesses and individuals. InDrive is already active as a set-your-price e-hailing service in…
Read MoreTradeExperettes webinar on the WTO Ecommerce Moratorium and Women, and the New Markets Lab Survey
The Chair of EFSA’s Legal Committee, Tendi Hlatshwayo of Ozow, represented us at the second TradeExperettes webinar on the “WTO Ecommerce Moratorium and Women”. The WTO moratorium refers to customs…
Read MoreCollaborations on Tax and the Financial Sector Within the Continent
The African Union Commission (AUC) and the African Tax Administration Forum (ATAF) have extended their cooperation by officially signing a MoU, which is aimed at amplifying the continent’s voice on…
Read MoreGIZ Study on the Gig Market in Africa
EFA was invited to comment on the Gig market for a study being carried out by the German development aid agency, GIZ. Although this study is not confined to Africa,…
Read MoreSocial Commerce in Africa and Other Issues on Social Commerce
I shall be on a panel at the Seamless Payments, Fintech, Retail, Ecommerce Conference in Sandton on 19-20 Sept (https://www.terrapinn.com/exhibition/seamless-africa/index.stm) addressing Social Commerce and therefore it was interesting to read…
Read MoreEFA Keynote Speaker at the 14th AU High-Level Private Sector Forum
EFA was a keynote speaker at the AU Private Sector Forum organised by the East Africa Community in Nairobi on 10 July. Ruhi Suttarwala, an award-winning ecommerce practitioner with extensive experience of…
Read MoreThe SA Competition Commission Designates Ecommerce as a Sector to be Controlled for Abuses of Buyer Power
The CCSA held 2 workshops on its new guidelines dated 22 May 2023 on buyer power abuses. EFSA attended the first of these workshops, on 14 June. Following the new…
Read MoreOther AfCFTA-Related News: SA Starts Workshops on the AfCFTA, the Ecobank Group Starts a Trade Hub, and the UBA Launches a Fund to Resource SMEs
The Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC) is rolling out a series of awareness workshops on the AfCFTA Agreement throughout the country. The first was held in June…
Read MoreThe AfCFTA’s Draft Protocol on Women and Youth
The Women an Youth Protocol has not attracted such criticism and does look likely to get adopted by the next Ministers’ meeting. It is worth remembering, that the AU’s Maputo…
Read MoreNews from Africa
The AfCFTA Digital Trade Protocol The hopes of the Secretariat to complete the negotiations on the Protocol by 23 July have not succeeded. The meeting of the negotiators has been…
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