SADC Summit Backs Regional Electric Mobility Push as South Africa Takes Chair

At the 46th SADC Summit in Durban, South Africa assumed regional leadership at a moment when the continent's vast mineral wealth — cobalt, lithium, platinum, and more — sits at the center of a global energy transformation it has yet to profit from. The region holds up to 30 percent of the world's critical transition minerals yet captures almost none of the manufacturing value they generate, a paradox that South Africa's one-year chairmanship now has the mandate and the urgency to address. With European markets closing to combustion engines and new fiscal incentives already in place, the questi