Posts by Alastair Tempest

Direct airline flights between Africa and China have jumped over 600% in the past decade. More and more short-term Chinese tourists and students are visiting Africa. One favoured sport –…

In another major move by the UN General Assembly, delegates debated Climate Change and the urgent need for remedial action. Again UNCTAD has come out with a well-timed report, Commodities and Development Report…

At the UN General Assembly at the end of this month, the UN Secretary General, António Guterres, said he feared that the world was rapidly becoming split between those countries which…

Africa is rapidly urbanizing. Its rate of urbanization soared from 15% in 1960 to 40% in 2010, and is projected to reach 60% by 2050, according to the report “UN-Habitat, The…

Australian online shopping platform the Allsale Club has launched in SA, promising to offer international brands at significantly low prices. The Allsale Club is a subscription-based online “department store” that seeks…

There have been an increasing number of articles and TV programmes on the use of personal data. As this Newsletter has reported, the POPIA law is still not fully implemented,…

Standard Bank, Africa’s largest financial services organisation, is a founding signatory to the UN Principles for Responsible Banking – a framework aimed at driving sustainable economic development and ensuring prosperity…

The African Investment Forum’s new digital platform will connect project sponsors with investment opportunities in Africa, vastly improving the quality of project information and documentation. The Platform also provides an…

There has been an explosion of African startups all over the continent, but international investors are missing out by looking for the same business models that work in Silicon Valley,…

One of the most common complaints I hear from start-ups is the lack of financing. It is therefore good to see that ABAN, the largest network of Angel Investors in…