
In this episode, TDi's CEO Assheton Stewart Carter talks to three representatives from different parts of the mining industry, who will all be speaking at the 2025 Mining Indaba in Cape Town, on maximising Africa's critical mineral endowment.
The panelists are:
Gareth Walsh | Director – Climate and Energy Advisory, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
Dr Theophilus Archeampong | Visiting Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)
George Bennett | CEO, Rainbow Rare Earths
The speakers discuss how African countries can be positioned as a partner of choice in the energy transition and what needs to be done to ensure Africa becomes a global minerals leader and future-proof its mining industry.

A growing number of mineral-producing governments are acquiring assets, activating marketing rights and building institutions that can intervene across the value chain.

Exxaro is set to exit its only offshore asset through a two-step transaction that will see it acquire Anglo American’s remaining stake in the Moranbah South coking coal project before selling the entire asset to Stanmore Resources for $105 million.

Lindian Resources is seeking to build a vertically integrated rare earth supply chain stretching from its Kangankunde project in Malawi through processing facilities in Kazakhstan to downstream markets in Europe, highlighting the increasingly complex geopolitics reshaping critical minerals.