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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
FDI. The UDC’s economic restructuring plan includes making it easier to do business by simplifying bureaucracy, and introducing systems in support of transparency and accountability.The common denominator in the elections in the DRC, Botswana, South Africa and Mozambique is that nothing is permanent, and attempting to “play politics”, does not necessarily support longevity of investment decisions and the projects and mines that are established off the back of these investment decisions.Then of course there is the re-election of Doland Trump as the President-Elect of the United States. Donald Trump is still President-Elect until January 2025, but his re-election had an immediate effect on global markets including the strengthening of the United States Dollar (USD) which could have a significant impact on the Mining and Natural Resources Sector in the short to medium term, particularly because of the mining sector’s reliance on imported goods and services such as machinery and equipment. It is predicted that President-Elect Donald Trump, aligned with his “America first” approach, is likely to push for significant reduction in reliance on international supply chains for critical minerals including “battery minerals”. He is likely to do this by focusing on three key areas, namely instituting import tariffs aimed at making production and beneficiation of minerals more cost-effective in the United States, reforming the mine licencing processes including environmental authorisations to make the process more efficient and quicker, and decoupling from China. President-Elect Donald Trump is expected to prioritise and incentivise primary extraction and beneficiation of the available minerals in
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