Meet the Minds Shaping Mining Indaba 2026
The Advisory Board for Mining Indaba 2026 unites influential voices from across the mining sector to guide the event’s focus, content, and impact. Their collective insight ensures Mining Indaba tackles the industry’s most pressing challenges while spotlighting opportunities for lasting, meaningful progress.
Executive Board and Leadership Advisors Strategic Advisors Influencers and Ambassadors
Executive Board
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“The theme ‘Stronger together: Progress through partnerships’ is a call to reimagine partnerships in Africa’s journey towards minerals for inclusive prosperity – not as tools of convenience, but as instruments of collective empowerment. It’s a reminder that Africa’s transformation through minerals, can only be achieved when we all – especially women, youth, marginalised communities, artisanal and small-scale miners, governments, industry, civil society, academia, cooperating partners – sit at the table as equal partners. It means forging alliances that centre equity, amplify African voices, and ensure our continent’s mineral wealth transforms lives – not in isolation, but through unity, equity, and shared purpose. Through bold partnerships and a commitment to equity, we can rewrite the story of our mineral wealth – not as a curse, but as a catalyst for justice, prosperity, and dignity for all Africans. Stronger together, we rise!”
“The Mining Indaba 2026 theme resonates with the South African philosophy of Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a belief that values humanness, and therefore holds that unity is strength. The MI26 Theme reinforces this philosophy, that when we work together as stakeholders, we craft a better future, we can shape our industries for the betterment of all stakeholders including the environment. Together we can build the future now!”
“Stronger together: Progress through patnerships” means uniting governments, private sector, communities, and civil society in a powerful and enduring partnership that will transform mining into a shared triumph for Africa's future.”
“We can no longer operate as before. Neither bulk exports of unrefined ore or export bans are durable solutions. Rather, the industry has to pivot toward practices that provide more value and technology transfer in African nations. This transition will be aided by the introduction of more nimble and economically viable refining technologies and the provision of supportive infrastructure undertaken via public private partnerships.”
Leadership Advisors
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“It’s a great theme encouraging people to set aside differences, connect, communicate and work together. This aligns strongly with key values we live at CMOC IXM including integrity, responsibility, respect and TEAMWORK. Relationships remain our lifeblood and working with the right people and the right partners is critical to being impactful and successful. As Michael Jordan once said, it's TEAMs that win championships. ”
“If you’re not in Africa, you’re not in mining!!! If you’re in mining, Mining Indaba is Africa. Come to 2026 Mining Indaba and prove the world, and Africa, is still a place where people can work together to make a difference: Stronger together: Progress through partnerships.”
“Progress happens when governments, juniors, communities, and majors work together to share knowledge, manage risk, and open up new frontiers - often in ways that challenge existing paradigms. It's this spirit of collaboration across sectors that will make discovery possible in the search for critical minerals.”
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“This year's theme highlights the critical role partnerships play as key value drivers in creating sustainable growth, impactful for all stakeholders . Africa's rich mineral endowment will play a major role in the future supply of all minerals necessary for the global green energy transition, which, when coupled with mutual accountability and shared vision, will undoubtedly benefit the entire value chain.”
