Public and personal sector entities throughout Southern Africa’s mining sector are intensifying cooperation to reinforce the crucial mineral worth chain for financial progress. In July 2024, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Botswana signed an settlement to improve an present railway line linking the three nations and to construct a brand new line and a deep-water port in Mozambique. The transnational railway line will probably be essential in transporting crucial minerals together with Botswana’s copper, manganese, cobalt, and nickel, Zimbabwe’s platinum, and Mozambique’s graphite – to worldwide markets.
In keeping with its dedication to advancing cooperation between Southern Africa’s mining associations and stakeholders, the Mining Business Affiliation of Southern Africa (MIASA) has joined the Vital Minerals Africa (CMA) Summit as a strategic associate. MIASA’s participation underscores the occasion’s significance in driving Africa’s crucial mineral business progress by uniting regional stakeholders on coverage improvement, technical experience, funding, and capability constructing.
“The rising demand for clear vitality applied sciences is growing the demand for southern Africa’s crucial minerals. Cooperation between southern Africa’s mining stakeholders is important to unlock the area’s full crucial mineral potential to drive the worldwide vitality transition and the expansion of native economies,” states Rachelle Kasongo, Undertaking Director at CMA organizer Vitality Capital & Energy.
Since 1998, MIASA has fostered collaboration between the SADC mining sector and the non-public sector, selling business prosperity. Uniting Chambers of Mines from 11 nations – together with Botswana, DRC, Lesotho, Madagascar, Mozambique, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe – MIASA encourages greatest practices and creates a conducive surroundings for progress.
Recognizing the significance of cooperation to unlock crucial mineral prospects, Southern African stakeholders proceed to prioritize regional partnerships. In Might 2024, Cape City funding company Wesgro and Namibia’s Environmental Funding Fund signed an settlement to advance the event of inexperienced hydrogen infrastructure linking the Western Cape and Northern Cape areas of South Africa with the Lüderitz/Windhoek area in Namibia. The challenge will assist enhance the usage of South Africa’s platinum group metals for inexperienced hydrogen purposes, enhancing native and regional vitality safety, decarbonization, and financial progress.
The DRC, Angola and Zambia have intensified collaboration amongst themselves and with international companions – together with the European Union and the U.S. authorities – to combine logistics infrastructure and providers as a part of the Lobito Hall for optimum transportation of crucial minerals to international markets. In July 2024, the Lobito Atlantic Railway consortium – operator of the Lobito Hall – started operations at Angola’s Port of Lobito, receiving its first cargo vessel carrying 40,500 tons of sulfur for transportation to the DRC and Zambia for mining purposes.
South Africa’s Division of Mineral Assets and Petroleum can also be exploring crucial minerals in South Sudan in partnership with the East African nation’s Ministry of Mining. The partnership will strengthen South Sudan’s place within the international crucial mineral sector and South Africa’s business experience to advance crucial minerals mining regionally and all through the SADC area.
At CMA, MIASA will present an replace on the actions of its members, highlighting funding and partnership alternatives for international buyers inside Southern Africa’s vitality transition metals sector.
