Mantashe shrugs off Trump’s aid plans with threat to ‘withdraw minerals’
Mineral and petroleum resources minister says Africa should realise ‘its advantage and take charge of growing demand’
03 February 2025 - 13:14
UPDATED 03 February 2025 - 23:02
Mineral & petroleum resources minister Gwede Mantashe has scoffed at US President Donald Trump’s threat that the US will withdraw aid to the SA economy, saying SA could leverage its minerals in kind.
Mantashe delivered an opening address at the 2025 Investing in African Mining Indaba in Cape Town on Monday. His remarks come after Trump said the US federal government would withhold aid funding to SA, claiming the government was “confiscating land”...
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