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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The South African government and advocacy groups for the country’s Afrikaner white minority on Wednesday rejected the Trump administration’s position that there’s a humanitarian emergency affecting white people in South Africa.

Morocco has overtaken South Africa as Africa’s leading industrial economy, according to a new report by the African Development Bank, marking a major shift in the continent’s economic landscape.

South Africa made critical minerals the cornerstone of a push for a 15-year extension of the US African Growth and Opportunity Act, warning that short extensions undermine investor confidence and disrupt regional manufacturing plans. The AGOA trade deal gives African countries duty-free access to the American market.

Rival lobby groups weaken bid to retain duty-free US trade access

The Organisation Undoing Tax Abuse (OUTA), is a civil action organisation that was formed in 2012, to challenge a Government policy on the funding of the Gauteng Freeway project upgrade through an electronic tolling system. OUTA conducted significant research on the e-tolling decision, and established that while these mechanisms have a purpose and place for road infrastructure financing in many ...

Two of the most influential Republican congressional staffers on US-Africa policy are departing this month, just as the Senate confirms the official set to lead the State Department’s Africa bureau.

The most pressing issue for South Africa is improving trade relations between Pretoria and Washington, says new SA ambassador to the US, Roelf Meyer.

Intra-African commerce could reach 53% if the African Continental Free Trade Area was fully implemented, up from 18% currently.

People living close to the epicentre of a deadly Ebola outbreak have told the BBC of their fear, as the World Health Organization (WHO) warned cases may be spreading faster than originally thought.

The future of South Africa’s National Health Insurance (NHI) Act could be ruled invalid in two Constitutional Court challenges by the Board of Healthcare Funders (BHF) and the Premier of the Western Cape.