College of Business and Economics | Annual Report 2023 43 Open University, UK. Students and postdocs were able to engage with global scholars in the field, as is the case with other events that we host or in which we are engaged. PhD and postdoctoral fellows are also encouraged to attend a wide range of suitable external events and capacity development courses. During 2023, our PhD students and postdoctoral fellows attended several events (for example, the IntraAfrican Trade Fair Business Event; BRICS Network University event; Africa BRICS Youth Forum; Round Table on Trade Facilitation and Infrastructure) and training programmes (Beijing International Studies University Summer Programme and 7th Edition of APORDE). In addition, three master’s students received individualised mentoring and guidance, evaluation, and feedback on their written work through SARChI ID support, and one of our PhD students attended a writing and publishing retreat. We were thrilled to support several of our students and postdocs to present their research at national and international conferences. POLICY AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENTS AND ACTIVITIES In addition to the colloquium mentioned above, during 2023 we also hosted, co-hosted, or partnered in several successful public events. We continued to partner in the ‘Rethinking Economics for Africa Festival’ held in conjunction with the Rethinking Economics for Africa (REFA) chapters, the Institute for Economic Justice (IEJ), and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES). The festival brings academics, students, activists, policymakers, and researchers together into a conversation about the present and future of economic thinking, teaching, and policy in Africa and in South Africa in particular. We co-hosted the ‘Trade & Industry Policy Strategies (TIPS) Annual Forum’, in partnership with TIPS, and in association with the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (the dtic). The theme ‘Industrial Policy in an era of Global Structural Change: Implications for Southern Africa’ provided the opportunity to engage on the implications that recent profound shifts in national and international realities have for Southern Africa, in conjunction with rapid and disruptive technological changes threatening to strand older producers while opening new opportunities for growth. We partnered with APORDE, the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition, and TIPS, to present the ‘Industrial Policy for
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