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The Impumelelo Economic Growth Lab is a unit at the BER that focuses on generating policy-relevant work and building capacity to achieve economic success in South Africa. Impumelelo means success.
The President has launched Phase 3 of the Government-Business Partnership, with a stronger focus on sector-specific interventions in mining, agriculture and agriprocessing, and tourism. In our latest data story, Visa Reform's Next Test: Can Tourism Move Beyond the Post-COVID Recovery?, we assess the state of South Africa’s tourism recovery in 2026. The full story is available here: https://dataportal.ber.ac.za/datastories/visa-reform-tourism/
