South Africa’s Business Council of the BRICS has called on African governments to ensure the seamless movement of goods and services across the continent to improve trade and investments.
“To improve trade and investments in Africa, enabling easier mobility between business communities is important,” stated the council chairman, Busi Mabuza.
She made the call at a business roundtable and dialogue session organised by the South African consulate general in Lagos and Brand South Africa.
BRICS is the regional economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa.
Ms Mabuza said peculiar visa regimes of each African country should be reviewed to encourage Africans to travel across the continent unimpeded. She stressed that Africans must realise that trade could improve only when there were interactions.
“I believe that the cries of businesses around visa regimes of our various countries are not unfounded. Trade only happens when we interact,…
