Lamola calls for 50% intra-SADC trade during SA’s SADC leadership

Lamola calls for 50% intra-SADC trade during SA’s SADC leadership

South Africa Pushes for 50% Intra-SADC Trade

South Africa is putting regional trade, value chains and critical-mineral beneficiation at the center of its 2026–27 SADC chairship. South Africa is placing deeper regional trade and industrialization at the center of its 2026–27 chairship of the Southern African Development Community (SADC), with a target to lift intra-regional trade to 50%. The agenda links higher trade within Southern Africa to regional value chains, greater processing of cri…

SADC calls for deeper integration

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) has called for deeper regional integration as intra-regional trade recorded only modest growth in…

SA takes SADC helm with push for bigger regional trade – Windhoek Observer

Patience Makwele  South Africa has taken over the chairmanship of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) with a push to raise intra-regional trade to 50% and extract greater economic value from the region’s critical mineral wealth. South Africa’s minister of international relations and cooperation, Ronald Lamola, made the commitment on Wednesday in Durban when he formally accepted the SADC Council of Ministers chairmanship for 2026–20…