WEF report urges investment in sensitive minerals in South Africa

The World Economic Forum (WEF), in conjunction with South African Development Bank (DBSA) and MCKINEY & Company, reinforcement with an urgent need to increase the development of Africa’s sensitive investment.

These minerals are important in clean power and low carbon technology.

The report, part of the mineral receiving energy programs, focusing on ten countries and dealing with the financial posts that prevents us from the world’s locker.

Sub-Saharan Africa holds approximately 30% of the known shacks in the serious mineral shacks such as copper, COBALT, Lithium, and Platinum-Group Metals. However, Africa draws less than 10% of the worldwide testing.

Report, drawing expertise, identifies eight obstacles support, including the risk of policy uncertainty and investment, which damages regional development.

Some obstacles include power access, navigation, Innovation Lag, industrial purposes, skills and demand.

The WeF converts industrial ecosystems Jörgen Sandtröm said: “The Southern Africa has the Global Energy Reforms. But financial flow is not limited.

“Our new research does not only provide the gap scale but also useful, proved ways to shut down. To unlock this can be difficult for regional prosperity and power security worldwide.”

The report produces cases of cases that show successful strategies that overcome these issues.

For example, the Lobito Corridor Project intends to improve the Democratic Republic of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia by connecting to Angola. This action is supported by many participants, including the European Union and the US.

Another trial, Namibia’s Green Iron production Center, which began working on April 2025.

The plant, the first of its kind in Africa, is empowered by renewable force and aims to measure its product by 2030.

In addition, Zambia’s Mining Policy transformation is set to improve Copper production, for a period of three-million tons of tons of 2031.

DBSA CEO Boitumumo Mosako said: “Since we face major changes of our time – climate change to a traveling economic test – Africa must be a valid participant in developing its development.

“If the issuance continues the same as historical practice, the continent will recycle the opportunity to transform its mineral and economic transformers to all.”