Regional integration: Botswana and South Africa fight it out

I do not attempt to understand all the issues around EPAs, in particular how they are going to reshape regional integration in Africa. But with the huge financial transfers involved in SACU getting more press coverage in South Africa, largely driven by the National Treasury and the Department of Trade and Industry, it is clear that the "regional" project in our part of the world is in deep trouble: an article in yesterday's Sunday Standard, published in Botswana, revealed all the antagonisms between South Africa and Botswana around the EPA with the EU. Bitter stuff! I have posted the article in today's selection of newsflashes on the FANRPAN website, hoping that it will get some wider circulation in the region.