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When making laws and policies in relation to Energy Transition, we should adopt a new dimension that creates incentives which attract the right investments for Africa and are beneficial to Africans #ETAfrica2023

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Hanri Mostert argues that we should go further, though. And this brings us back to the Three Horizons. This approach asks two more questions which can help with reframing our vision of mineral resource law and governance. (1) One question is:

Hanri Mostert On what can we build? They call it the “pockets of the future” already present in the status quo. When we review the MPRDA, we should think not only of what doesn’t work, but what does. One such a “pocket of the future” is the central idea of the MPDRA,

Hanri Mostert that minerals belong to the people and that the state is the custodian thereof, for the benefit of everyone.

Hanri Mostert (2) How can we foster new and different opportunities for growth and flourishing?

Hanri Mostert The answer to this question comes from economists: the only way to halt the premature deindustrialization they’ve been witnessing in the South African economy over the past twenty years, is to infuse the system with economic complexity. This aligns with research that shows

Hanri Mostert that countries who escape the resource curse, are the ones that do not allow a single industry (the extractives industry) to devour others, like agriculture and manufacture.

Hanri Mostert With innovative, divergent thinking, a problem can be turned into a massive opportunity.

Read about Gaopalelwe Mathiba’s inspiring PhD journey at MLIA! To read some of Gaopalelwe’s work, visit the MLIA website (mlia.uct.ac.za/news-39) to read blog articles written by him and other members of the chair. Hanri Mostert UCT Postgrad Studies UCT Law School

Next week, I'll be participating in an online seminar hosted by MLiA UCT, on the abandonment of land. My friend Richard Cramer has organised the event. I'll be joining him and Bernard Kengni for a discussion where I'll try to share some comparative insight from Scotland.

Please join us this Wednesday for the latest MLiA Lunchtime Seminar on Abandonment and Mining: Rights, Land & Environment. Please e-mail [email protected] for the registration link.

This I've experienced to be true.

Yesterday & today, two of our researchers contributed poster presentations to the World Resources Forum’s ongoing conference. See their posters here: wrf2023.org/online-posters/

Our Abandonment and Mining: Rights, Land, and Environment seminar is about to kick off. Join NOW for a fulfilling lunchtime. UCT UCT Brand van Zyl Law Library LARC Hanri Mostert #MLIAseminar2023 #Mining #Africa #Law

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Regarding long term solutions, he speaks about rehabilitation efforts such as: 1. Containment & isolation; 2. Remediation; 3. Land reclamation; and 4. Recycling & reuse efforts.

Dr Kengni ends by addressing the need for private companies and individuals to give mine communities alternative means of housing and earning an income while we wait for the government to catch up with law/policy and funding.