{"id":1099,"date":"2008-08-09T09:49:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-09T09:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/?p=1099"},"modified":"2014-08-13T08:10:31","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T08:10:31","slug":"sadc-launches-free-trade-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/southern-africa-today\/sadc-launches-free-trade-area\/","title":{"rendered":"SADC Launches Free Trade Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SADC LAUNCHES its free trade area this August,\u00a0signalling the creation of one of the largest\u00a0free trade zones on the African continent with\u00a0some 250 million people.\u00a0The official launch is expected during the\u00a028th SADC Summit in South Africa, a historic<br \/>\nevent that will usher in a new era of economic\u00a0integration and rapid industrialisation of the\u00a0sub-region through expanded trading opportunities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/v11n1.pdf\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/v11n1.jpg?resize=100%2C134&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"100\" height=\"134\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/v11n1.pdf\">English<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/portv11n1.pdf\">Portugu\u00eas<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/editorial\/sadctoday\/documents\/frv11n1.pdf\">Fran\u00e7aise<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SADC LAUNCHES its free trade area this August,\u00a0signalling the creation of one of the largest\u00a0free trade zones on the African continent with\u00a0some 250 million people.\u00a0The official launch is expected during the\u00a028th SADC Summit in South Africa, a historic event that will usher in a new era of economic\u00a0integration and rapid industrialisation of the\u00a0sub-region through expanded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-southern-africa-today"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h5b0-hJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1099"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1342,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1099\/revisions\/1342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sardc.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}