S.Africa mines minister suggests Africa withhold minerals after Trump aid cut

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00:00To kick us off, representing the voice of the community.

00:20Important minerals such as manganese, what a great manganese producer.

00:25So investors, that is an attractive investment area.

00:29Please come, have a discussion with us.

00:33Foreign funded NGOs make our life difficult in the continent.

00:38You passed an exploration act, therefore Trump will withhold funding to South Africa.

00:45And I said, let's not immobilize Africa, let's withhold minerals to the US.

00:51That is it.

00:52If they don't give us money, let's not give them minerals.

00:55They take our minerals, but say we're withholding funding.

00:58No, we have minerals in the continent, and therefore we have something that we have.

01:05We're not just beggars, but we must use that endowment for our benefit as a continent.

01:14But if as a continent we are frightened, we fear everything, we are going to collapse

01:22and we'll collapse with minerals at our doorstep.

01:26Such as manganese, what a great manganese producer.

01:30You can talk to us.

01:32My appeal is that Africa is the world's richest mining jurisdiction.

01:39And that issue is an issue that we must internalize as a continent, use it to our advantage.

01:47It's one of the things that we can use to compete in the world.

01:50You can't be the poorest continent.