Department of Trade, Industry and Competition
DTI South Africa SEZ – BAT PRISM™
The national command centre for South Africa's Special Economic Zones programme — every designated and proposed zone in one place, live BAT PRISM™ diagnostics where completed, and the strategic picture the dtic needs to oversee the programme as a whole.
The programme, at a glance
Full national figures on the National Dashboard, sourced to the dtic Spatial Industrial Development Strategy, June 2026.
Active engagements
Executive snapshot
Every BAT PRISM™ model applied across both live engagements, summarised for a national-level reading. Each card opens the full model, its report and its PDF inside the relevant SEZ platform — nothing here duplicates that content.
National Dashboard
The SEZ Programme's national performance, drawn directly from the dtic's own Spatial Industrial Development Strategy — no figure here is estimated.
Programme leadership
The unit that heads the SEZ Programme is the dtic's branch, specifically its Spatial Industrial Development sub-programme.
Most recent public appearance
Earlier remarks
Most recent snapshot
The dtic's 2nd International SEZ Conference (16–17 July 2026) reported a newer national count — shown alongside the SID Strategy figures above rather than replacing them, since the two sources report different figures at different dates.
Sector mix across the zones
Fund distribution leaders
SEZ Fund infrastructure support is concentrated in five zones: TASEZ (31%), Coega (20%), ELIDZ (18%), SBIDZ (9%), RBIDZ (8%).
Legislation and zone categories
Every SEZ operates under the , designated as one of four categories: .
Standard incentives
Programme contacts
General enquiries: · SEZ Fund applications: · Customer Contact Centre:
Provincial Overview
Every designated and proposed SEZ, grouped by province.
Executive Analytics
Cross-SEZ comparison. Scores are shown only for SEZs with a completed BAT PRISM™ diagnostic — every other zone is listed so the comparison view is complete, with its data marked pending rather than estimated.
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SEZ Directory
Every officially recognised Special Economic Zone — designated and proposed.
Reports
Every report available across the two live engagements.
Executive PRISM™ Modules
The BAT PRISM™ methodology's proprietary diagnostic models, applied consistently across every SEZ engagement. Names 1–14 and 15 are confirmed against the source manual and live engagement data; models 16–17 were added to the platform's standard after the manual's last edition and are not yet catalogued by name.
Intellectual Property Notice
BAT PRISM™ (Public Record Intelligence and Signal Mapping), together with its seventeen proprietary models, scoring scales, maturity tiers, the Brand Evidence Confidence Index™ and all associated frameworks, methodology and report formats, is the exclusive intellectual property of Blue Apple Tree Brand Consultancy & Design (Pty) Ltd, engaged to deliver diagnostic and advisory services to the Department of Trade, Industry and Competition.
Content on this platform is prepared for the dtic and remains confidential. No part of this platform, its methodology, scoring logic, models or reports may be reproduced, distributed, adapted, reverse-engineered or used to derive a competing framework without prior written consent.