{"id":13523,"date":"2025-07-29T10:54:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T08:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-minister-urges-africa-to-process-its-minerals-locally-at-g20-critical-minerals-talks\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:27","slug":"sa-minister-urges-africa-to-process-its-minerals-locally-at-g20-critical-minerals-talks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sa-minister-urges-africa-to-process-its-minerals-locally-at-g20-critical-minerals-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"SA Minister urges Africa to process its minerals locally at G20 critical minerals talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He warned against exporting raw materials to countries that impose high tariffs on finished goods.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the ongoing G20 Critical Minerals Stakeholder Engagement in Johannesburg, Mantashe said Africa must retain control over its resources to maximise economic benefits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to have a serious conversation with China. They cannot build a bigger chrome industry than us when we are the ones mining the chrome,\u201d Mantashe said. \u201cThe larger chrome industry should be located here, as we are the world\u2019s largest chrome producers. We cannot allow chrome to be exported and stockpiled, only for the market to be flooded later, causing prices to collapse. That must not happen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The event, held under the theme \u2018Harnessing Critical Minerals for Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development\u2019, brings together governments, industry experts, and stakeholders to explore ways to responsibly develop and manage critical minerals,many of which Africa holds in abundance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13524,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-13523","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"South Africa\u2019s (SA) Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, has emphasised the importance of African countries developing their own mineral processing industries.  ","published_date":null,"news_description":"South Africa\u2019s (SA) Minister of Mineral and Petroleum Resources, Gwede Mantashe, has emphasised the importance of African countries developing their own mineral processing industries.  ","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13523\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18607,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13523\/revisions\/18607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}