Six Southern African nations have aligned around a shared vision for green industrialisation — one that treats renewable energy, circular economy principles, and technology transfer not as burdens on development but as its very engine. Meeting in South Africa under UN auspices, representatives from Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe validated regional policy recommendations that could redefine how the continent builds wealth in the decades ahead. The deeper question animating the gathering was an old one: whether a region long shaped by extraction can finally becom