BUSINESS RELATIONSHIP
UK ready to build on new opportunities to grow local trade ties
There’s a widespread feeling that positive change has arrived in South Africa, writes UK trade envoy Andrew Selous
January’s successful visit to Davos by Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa and Team SA, coupled with the recent changes we’ve seen in Zimbabwe and Angola, have helped to build a sense of excitement around the world about the prospects for Southern Africa in 2018. There’s a widespread feeling that positive change has arrived and of renewed opportunity for SA and its global friends and partners. When British Prime Minister Theresa May and Ramaphosa met in Davos, they expressed a shared determination to reinvest in and reinvigorate the already strong UK-SA relationship. And they agreed that we should work hard to ready ourselves to take advantage of the opportunities arising from the UK’s exit from the EU. I’m therefore delighted, at this moment of optimism, to have been appointed by May as her new trade envoy to SA and to be visiting for the first time in that capacity this week. It is a great privilege to be asked to take on this role, and I look forward to playing my own part in buildi...
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