{"id":36668,"date":"2026-06-10T07:53:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:53:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=36668"},"modified":"2026-06-10T07:53:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:53:28","slug":"sa-kenya-trade-co-operation-gains-momentum","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-kenya-trade-co-operation-gains-momentum\/","title":{"rendered":"SA, Kenya trade co-operation gains momentum"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Business leaders from South Africa (SA) and Kenya are calling for stronger trade and investment ties following recent efforts to boost economic cooperation between the two countries.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Trade remains heavily in SA&#8217;s favour, but Kenya&#8217;s growing economy, driven by agriculture, manufacturing and financial technology, is creating new opportunities for business and investment.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Last week SA President Cyril Ramaphosa briefed members of the media during Kenyan President William Ruto&#8217;s State visit at the Union Buildings in Pretoria, Gauteng Province.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">Ruto&#8217;s three-day visit was his first since taking over as head of State of the East African economic powerhouse in September 2022.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">SA and Kenya has 28 memorandums of agreement in various fields including agriculture, tourism, transport, trade, education, and defence.<\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"x_elementToProof\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":36224,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-36668","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Business leaders are calling for SA and Kenya stronger trade","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36669,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/36668\/revisions\/36669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=36668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}