{"id":217805,"date":"2025-12-23T10:35:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-cta-calls-on-government-to-avoid-closure-of-mozal\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T10:35:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T08:35:51","slug":"mozambique-cta-calls-on-government-to-avoid-closure-of-mozal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-cta-calls-on-government-to-avoid-closure-of-mozal\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: CTA Calls On Government to Avoid Closure of Mozal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s Confederation of Business Associations (CTA) has called on the government to avoid &#8220;at all costs&#8217; the closure of the Mozal aluminium smelter, on the outskirts of Maputo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">CTA chairperson Alvaro Massingue, cited by the German agency DW Africa, warned that there would be &#8220;severe social and economic consequences&#8217; from any closure of the smelter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">&#8220;It should be a common objective to avoid, at all costs, the closure of Mozal&#8217;, said Massingue. He feared that closure would have a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512220509.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 Mozambique&#8217;s Confederation of Business Associations (CTA) has called on the government to avoid &#8220;at all costs&#8217; the closure of the Mozal aluminium smelter, on the outskirts of Maputo. CTA chairperson Alvaro Massingue, cited by the German agency DW Africa, warned that there would be &#8220;severe social and economic consequences&#8217; from any closure of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217806,"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":[654],"tags":[258,256,8728,6137,5061,12462,6427,46546,4704,682,257,254],"class_list":["post-217805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-avoid","tag-calls","tag-closure","tag-cta","tag-government","tag-mozal","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-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\/217805","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=217805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}