Partners

The African Cotton Association (ACA) was created in Cotonou, Benin, on the 19th september 2002in order to assist and protect the African cotton industries and its farmers. The ACA also aims to facilitate the experience sharing between African cotton companies on agronomical, industrial and commercial issues. Each year, the ACA organizes along its annual corporate dinner, a technical seminar that enables all the professionals of the cotton supply chain (producers, traders, industrials) to meet and share valuable experiences.

The Alliance for Commodity Trade in Eastern and Southern Africa (ACTESA) was launched on September 24 2008 by the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)’s Ministers of agriculture. On June 9, 2009, ACTESA was established by the Heads of State of COMESA (the COMESA Authority) as a Specialized Agency to integrate small farmers into national, regional and international markets.

The African Cotton and Textile Industries Federation (ACTIF) is a not for profit regional industry/trade body formed in June 2005 by the Cotton, Textile and Apparel sectors from Eastern and Southern Africa covering the COMESA, SADC and the EAC.

AFMA strives for the development of a sustainable industry that acts responsible within the food chain by ensuring safe feed for safe food.

AFSTA was formally established on March 20 - 21, 2000, during an inaugural congress in South Africa. Kenya was elected as host country for the Secretariat.The African Seed Trade Association arose out of a need to have a regional representative body for the seed industry, which could also serve to promote the development of private seed enterprises.

Agri SA promotes, on behalf of its members, the development, profitability, stability and sustainability of commercial agriculture in South Africa by means of its involvement and input on national and international policy level.

DSM Corridor Group is a service company with an unbeatable combination of local knowledge, international experience and technical know-how. The extensive working experience in Tanzanian ports combined with the international experience give all the know-how a port user possibly could need.

The East African Community (EAC) is the regional intergovernmental organisation of the Republics of Kenya, Uganda, the United Republic of Tanzania, Republic of Rwanda and Republic of Burundi with its headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.

FESARTA, formerly known as The Federation of Regional Road Freight Associstions (FRRFA), was founded in 1993 by members of the NRTAs of Malawi, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe to address problems experienced by road Transporters in the SADC region. Operators associations from Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland, and Tanzania subsequently joined. The FRRFA became the first official association member of the Road infrastructure, Transport and Traffic committee ( Roads SCOM ) of SATCC-TU. SADC also established the post of Executive Officer, with Barney Curtis taking up the role on a voluntary basis in 1999. 

The main objective of the Organisation is to create an environment in which the handling, storage, marketing, financing, distribution, processing and related industries can fulfil their roles effectively.

The JSE Ltd (“JSE”) is licensed as an exchange under the Securities Services Act, 2004 and Africa’s premier exchange. It has operated as a market place for the trading of financial products for nearly 120 years. In this time, the JSE has evolved from a traditional floor based equities trading market to a modern securities exchange providing fully electronic trading, clearing and settlement in equities, financial and agricultural derivatives and other associated instruments and has extensive surveillance capabilities. The JSE is also a major provider of financial information. In everything it does, the JSE strives to be a responsible corporate citizen.

MCLI, the Maputo Corridor Logistics Intiative, is a non-profit organisation consisting of Infrastructure Investors, Service Providers and Stakeholders from Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland who are focussed on the promotion and further development of the Maputo Development Corridor (MDC) as the region's primary logistics transportation route. Our incorporation in South Africa as a Section 21 (non-profit) membership organisation (Reg. No. 2004/007466/08) positions us advantageously to facilitate inclusively between all stakeholders, public and private, across national borders, aiming to co-ordinate the views of Service Providers and Users of the Corridor, engaging primarily the governments of SA and Mozambique as well as Swaziland.

Microsoft strives to help people and businesses throughout the world realize their full potential.

The Perishable Products Export Control Board (PPECB), established in 1926, is a statutory organisation, which conducts its business in terms of the Perishable Products Export Control Act 9 of 1983. PPECB currently acts as an independent service provider of quality certification and cold chain management services for producers and exporters of perishable food products. PPECB’s services reduce the risk of producers and exporters of these products. PPECB controls all perishable exports from South Africa, the value of which is approximately 15 billion S.A. Rands per annum. It has an annual income of approximately 150 million S.A. Rands. 

The Regional Electricity Regulators Association of Southern Africa (RERA) was established by the Southern African Development Community (SADC) as a formal association of electricity regulators in July 2002 in terms of the SADC Protocol on Energy (1996), the SADC Energy Cooperation Policy and Strategy (1996), the SADC Energy Sector Action Plan (1997), the SADC Energy Activity Plan (2000) and in pursuit of the broader initiative of the New Partnership for Africa's development (NEPAD) and the African Energy Commission (AFREC).

SACAU (the Southern African Confederation of Agricultural Unions) is a regional farmers’organization that was established in 1992. Its membership is open to national farmers’unions and regional commodity associations in Southern Africa. It is involved in agricultural development in the region by strengthening the capacities of farmers’orgnizations, by providing a collective voice for farmers on regional and international matters, and by providing agriculture related information to its members and others stakeholders.

The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) consists of Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland. The SACU Secretariat is located in Windhoek, Namibia. SACU was established in 1910, making it the world’s oldest Customs Union. Historically SACU was administered by South Africa, through the 1910 and 1969 Agreements. The customs union collected duties on local production and customs duties on members’ imports from outside SACU, and the resulting revenue was allocated to member countries in quarterly installments utilizing a revenue-sharing formula.

The Southern African Development Community (SADC) started as Frontline States whose objective was political liberation of Southern Africa. SADC was preceded by the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), which was formed in Lusaka, Zambia on April 01, 1980 with the adoption of the Lusaka Declaration (Southern Africa: Towards Economic Liberation). The formation of SADCC was the culmination of a long process of consultations by the leaders of the then only majority ruled countries of Southern Africa, thus Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Mozambique, Swaziland, United Republic of Tanzania and Zambia, working together as Frontline States. In May 1979 consultations were held between Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Ministers responsible for Economic Development in Gaborone, Botswana. Subsequently a meeting was held in Arusha, Tanzania in July 1979 which led to the establishment of SADCC.

The Southern African Power Pool (SAPP) was created with the primary aim to provide reliable and economical electricity supply to the consumers of each of the SAPP members, consistent with the reasonable utilisation of natural resources and the effect on the environment.

The Trans-Kalahari Corridor was jointly built by the Namibian and Botswana Governments in the 1990s with an initial investment of approximately N$850 million, and was officially opened in 1998. This Corridor comprises a tarred road linking the Port of Walvis Bay with Botswana and the industrial powerhouse of South Africa, Gauteng. The Corridor stretches over 1,900 km along Walvis Bay-Windhoek-Gaborone-Johannesburg/Pretoria. It is supported by a railway line from the Port of Walvis Bay to Gobabis (via Windhoek), where transhipment facilities are available, and continues from Lobatse in Botswana.

The United States has a long history of extending a helping hand to those people overseas struggling to make a better life, recover from a disaster or striving to live in a free and democratic country. It is this caring that stands as a hallmark of the United States around the world -- and shows the world our true character as a nation. U.S. foreign assistance has always had the twofold purpose of furthering America's foreign policy interests in expanding democracy and free markets while improving the lives of the citizens of the developing world. Spending less than one-half of 1 percent of the federal budget, USAID works around the world to achieve these goals.

The Walvis Bay Corridor Group is a public-private partnership established to promote the utilisation of the Walvis Bay Corridors, which is a network of transport corridors principally comprising the Port of Walvis Bay, the Trans-Kalahari Corridor, the Trans-Caprivi Corridor, the Trans-Cunene Corridor, and the Trans-Oranje Corridor.

The World Customs Organization (WCO) is the only intergovernmental organisation exclusively focused on Customs matters. With its worldwide membership, the WCO is now recognised as the voice of the global Customs community. It is particularly noted for its work in areas covering the development of global standards, the simplification and harmonisation of Customs procedures, trade supply chain security, the facilitation of international trade, the enhancement of Customs enforcement and compliance activities, anti-counterfeiting and piracy initiatives, public-private partnerships, integrity promotion, and sustainable global Customs capacity building programmes. The WCO also maintains the international Harmonized System goods nomenclature, and administers the technical aspects of the WTO Agreements on Customs Valuation and Rules of Origin.