The Department of Trade and Industry has produced a white paper (November 2023), relating to electric vehicles.
The report states: “South Africa stands at a pivotal juncture, facing a challenge of profound complexity: how to transition both its automotive market and productive capacity to electric vehicles (EVs). The transport industry is South Africa’s third largest source of emissions, accounting for 11% of the total, and the sector is therefore important to ensure emissions reduction.
“Leveraging southern Africa’s mineral wealth alongside its emerging capacity to beneficiate these minerals can serve as the region’s greatest contribution to the green industrial revolution, laying the foundation for a grand bargain between the African continent and the industrialised countries of the north and east.”
Geopolitical risks will remain high in 2024, and there
