Articles, essays & reflections
Reflections on women, leadership and becoming—alongside professional perspectives on supply systems, governance and sustainable value.
African Trade · Economic Resilience
Why diversification must become a priority for African economies. Lessons from US trade uncertainty, AGOA and South Africa’s agricultural exports.
Regional Trade · Women in Business
Information, safety and trust: turning regional trade opportunities into purchase orders for women-owned businesses across SADC.
Reflections · Leadership & Work
Behind every restructuring, empty chair and additional responsibility is a human being. A personal acknowledgement of the exhaustion, uncertainty and grief that tough economic times carry.
Leadership & African Industry
From Dangote’s industrial ambition to Burkina Faso’s gold refinery, are Africans beginning to capture more of the value created on their own continent?
Procurement & Supply Chain
African suppliers are often difficult to find across borders, even as their information sits in disconnected portals. What would it take to make discovery, trust, payment and logistics work together?
Procurement & Supply Chain
Africa does not only need a free trade agreement. It needs the commercial infrastructure that makes discovering, paying and trading with African suppliers easy.
Procurement & Supply Chain
Reliability has improved, but affordability remains a structural challenge. What rising electricity costs mean for local production, supply chains and South Africa’s ability to compete.
Procurement & Supply Chain
Peak performance is built before peak begins. A practical readiness test for South African businesses facing port delays, elevated costs and global supply risk.
Leadership & Growth · Women’s Month
Zanele Nkomo on Leadership, Courage and Creating Opportunity. A personal introduction to a remarkable journey, and the lessons she shares with women stepping into their next opportunity.
Procurement & Supply Chain
In a volatile shipping environment, freight price is only one part of the decision. The real question is how much uncertainty the operation can afford.
Reflections · Women’s Month
You do not need to feel completely ready. You need to be willing to begin—and to trust yourself to grow along the way.
Reflections · Women’s Month
Women should not have to suffer beautifully before they are considered worthy of honour.
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