Africa

Seizing the moment: How Africa can transform resource wealth into green economic power

By Rob Davies

Business Maverick

Uprooted — rare plant helps to sow seeds for demise of Sibanye’s US lithium project

By Ed Stoddard

Africa

Africa’s critical minerals are key to the global net zero transition

By Gerhard Rudolph and Alessandra Pardini

Africa

As EV sales stall, obituaries of the internal combustion engine look premature

By Ed Stoddard and Georgina Crouth

Business Maverick

Climate conferences and the just transition — a slow, messy and painful process (Part 2)

By Saliem Fakir

World

António Costa’s alleged corruption linked to green minerals precipitates political crisis in Portugal

By Boaventura Monjane

Business Maverick

Plan for 120 off-grid fast-charging stations across SA set to ease electric vehicle drivers’ range anxiety

By Georgina Crouth

Business Maverick

Sibanye-Stillwater flags ‘grey elephants’ as earnings sag, Nevada lithium project delayed by rare plant

By Ed Stoddard

Africa

In the new scramble for Africa’s minerals, the continent’s resource curse must be turned into a blessing

By Phillip van Niekerk

Africa

Rampant mining in Côte d’Ivoire rapidly degrading fragile environment

By Mpho Morolane

Business Maverick

Investment community puts pressure on vehicle manufacturers to move with the times

By Neesa Moodley

Africa

Zimbabwe is counting on lucrative lithium as a US sanction-buster

By Peter Fabricius