Posts by Alastair Tempest

I was one of nearly 80 participants to attend a workshop for the President’s Commission. 5 Commissioners attended and headed up breakaway sessions. The meeting heard that the Commission had…

This has been an exceptionally busy month for us at EFSA, However, the main achievement has been the launching on 23 Oct of our Safe.Shop Trustmark after a successful 6…

We continue our series of interviews by EFA Board member Mpho Sekwele with leading women in ecommerce. Readers can subscribe to these interviews on our website as, sadly, we do…

Every month we try to bring some opportunities for you, our readers. The French team in SA invites you to attend “Ambition Africa” the biggest Franco-African B2B event in the…

Ambassador Chiedu Osakwe of Nigeria passed on this month. He was one of the brightest lights of the international trade community and a major influence for the conclusion of the…

IAB Europe Education & Training Committee has just launched its annual Human Capital in the Digital Environment report. The survey findings uncovered  a series of critical areas of the digital training and…

Angola is adopting an electronic payment system to facilitate the registration for import, export, and re-export trade, a difficult process due to administrative bureaucratic procedures.  With the new system, payment…

We have reported previously on the obscure but serious argument over “terminal dues”. These are the payments made by the national Post Office country of postage to the Postal Operator…

The communication regulator, ICASA, has slapped the MTN with an R5 million fine for not giving seven days’ notice before increasing its WhatsApp bundles in 2018. In April 2018 MTN launched…

Naspers has listed its global empire of consumer internet assets under the name of Prosus – and the jewel in the crown is a 31% stake in Chinese tech titan…