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The Mining Indaba 5 – 8 February 2024 at the Cape Town International Convention Centre Today marks the start of the Mining Indaba under the theme “Embracing the power of positive disruption: A bold new future for African Mining”. This is the biggest investment event yet for 2024, with over 900 investors and a little over 8100 attendees expected. The entire African mining value chain will be meeting to discuss investments, the energy transition, financing in the sector, new ways of sustainable mining, technology, health and safety. Namibia will be having its show case at the Convention, discussing “Critical raw material development and the local value addition in the Namibian context” on the 7th of February 2024 at the Westin Hotel. This is going to be a very interesting discussion considering the Indaba’s theme, in some ways as a country we are still playing catch up. Local value addition has been a considerable challenge for Namibia. June 2023 Cabinet took the decision prohibiting the export of some critical minerals, allowing only the export of small quantities at the discretion of the Minister of Mines and Energy. The policy was developed and is being implemented without the establishment of the requisite refineries or smelters and the capacity to add value to the minerals. As a country, apart from simply developing policies we need to simultaneously develop the means of execution. This can be done through public-private partnerships, bringing the investors or creating financing facilities for the brave to develop the infrastructure needed for the value addition and the capacity. #MiningIndaba2024 #MinistryofMines&EnergyNamibia# NamibiaInvestmentPromotionandDevelopmentBoard#TomAlweendo#AfricaMIneralsDevelopmentCentre #IsabellaChirchir #EliphasHawala#RiaanKozondunge