Ministerial Symposium

Creating stronger public-private cooperation at the highest level

Strictly a private event

The highly prestigious invite-only annual engagement helped create stronger public-private cooperation and encouraged the highest level of development planning. Gathering the most prominent mining CEOs and African mining Ministers for open and free-flowing discussions under the Chatham House rule.

It was a unique opportunity for Chief Executives to sit down with host Ministers and openly discuss ongoing challenges and pressing concerns, including; evolving towards a low-carbon economy & responsible extraction, enhancing industry's environmental, social & governance profiles and address the challenges of the future through the prism of innovation whilst building trust between companies and governments to help ministers form effective and business-enabling mining policies.

It is the only event in Africa that engages industry leaders of this magnitude for open and free-flowing discussions.

Key Speakers

“I have been attending Mining Indaba for the last 15-20 years. Every year it is a great platform to, first of all, meet people that you do not see the whole year or some time, and in one place, you meet so many people at one time. The discussion we had today at the Ministers' Symposium was a great exchange, discussing with Ministers, Governments, and those who are making policies in mining."

Simon Tuma-Waku, Deputy Managing Director, Ruashi Mining

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Stay ahead of the curve with exclusive insights from leaders in African mining. This summary reported, complied by Andrew Lane, Energy, Resources & Industrials Leader at Deloitte Africa, pulls back the curtain on the 2020 gathering and reveals what the industry's top minds are currently prioritising.

The confidential nature of the Symposium allowed for a level of honesty that is impossible to achieve in a public platform. Can you afford not to find out what leaders including Deshnee Naidoo (CEO, Vedanta Zinc), Louis Watum (MD: DRC, Ivanhoe Mines) and Roger Baxter (CEO, Minerals Council of South Africa) really think?

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