(South Africa) - This is a preview extract of the book “Trade Secrets of Business in South Africa”, hence this article will explore diverse issues in the subject of trade secrets for business and entrepreneurship. Before you start or grow a business in South Africa,...
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Intellectual
Trade Dress in Zambia
(Zambia) - As we prepare for Post-Corona New Normal in global and local economics, Zambian business owners and brands, can no longer ignore the intellectual property issues arising from product package designing that affect the sales or their products – Trade Dress....
SADC regional project preparation — policy and strategy logic — for regional operators
SADC now operates under thirty-three signed protocols, a Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan, an Industrialisation Strategy and Roadmap running to 2063, and an Investment Policy Framework layered on top. The volume of strategy is not in question. What...
ICT and transport ministerial — policy and strategy logic for SADC firms and investors
Twelve of SADC's sixteen member states sent representatives to Dar es Salaam this week for the ministerial meeting on ICT, information, transport and meteorology. That attendance gap is not incidental detail; it is the structural fact that should temper any...
Drowning in a Sea of Sameness
(Zimbabwe) - That’s what happens to a lot of brand identities, especially when it comes to colour. I was going to do a logo face/off between the ZB Bank and NBS logos, but decided to also review a few other players in the banking industry, with a focus on colour. It...
Milborrow: Growing Zimbabwe’s Livestock Industry Using IP
(Zimbabwe) - In 2013, Zimbabwe's cattle herd was 5 million herd of cattle (FAOstat.org), and a bulk of these have been vaccinated by Milborrow products, HITET being lead. HITET, the tried and tested animal vaccine brand that has kept the Zimbabwean herd for over a...
RTGS multi-currency platform — regional framework to study — across SADC member states
Fourteen of SADC's fifteen member states now sit inside a single, shared payment-settlement rule set, and one does not. That single exception, Comoros, is the detail that turns this month's confirmation of a multi-currency real-time gross settlement platform...