This policy paper explores airline restructuring and regulatory reform challenges and opportunities in the Southern African region with particular focus on Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia and South Africa. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, the air transport sector in the region faced...

This paper is based on a talk the author delivered at the Witwatersrand Branch of the South African Institute of International Affairs at the Annual General Meeting held on 27 November 1990. The author is Director-General of the Department of Foreign Affairs in South Africa

The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is the oldest customs union in the world, with significant opportunities ahead for creating higher economic growth and increased welfare benefits to the people of the region, by fulfilling its vision to become an economic community with a common market...