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Africa must seize the global critical minerals opportunity to accelerate industrialisation, create jobs and deepen regional economic integration rather than continue exporting raw materials, International Relations and Cooperation Minister Ronald Lamola argues. Speaking at the Ambassadorial Breakfast on Africa’s Growth Through Critical Minerals event, hosted by Absa in partnership with the Department of International Relations and Cooperation, in Johannesburg, on August 7, he said Africa’s vast critical mineral endowment positioned the continent at the centre of the global energy transition.