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Minister of industries, mines and energy Natangue Ithete this week buttressed the government target that “locals” must own at least 51% of all mining activities.<\/em><\/p>\n Ithete was speaking at the 12th Mining Expo and Conference, held under the theme: ‘Mining for Namibia’s Future: Job Creation, Local Empowerment and Economic Transformation’.<\/p>\n “The government’s strategic priorities remain clear: value addition, beneficiation, local content, development, skills transfer and employment creation,” said…<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Minister of industries, mines and energy Natangue Ithete this week buttressed the government target that “locals” must own at least 51% of all mining activities. Ithete was speaking at the 12th Mining Expo and Conference, held under the theme: ‘Mining for Namibia’s Future: Job Creation, Local Empowerment and Economic Transformation’. “The government’s strategic priorities remain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204492,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,3675,44354,4706,724,257,254],"class_list":["post-204491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bee","tag-fool","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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