Feira-INDABA

Cidade do Cabo. Por dentro do Mining Indaba 2024

Arrancou ontem, na Cidade do Cabo, África do Sul, a maior feira de minas em África, onde líderes africanos e empresários defenderam uma mudança de paradigma na exploração dos recursos.

É manhã de segunda-feira, 05 de Fevereiro. Uma multidão caminha a passos apressados em direcção ao pátio do Centro de Convenções da Cidade do Cabo, na África do Sul, onde outros homens e mulheres já aguardam pelo acesso à 30.ª edição do Investing in African Mining Indaba.

Uns ansiosos, outros mais descontraídos, empunhando um copo descartável de café ou uma garrafa de água, enquanto privam conversa com companheiros ou outros participantes do evento  que registou, no seu primeiro dia, 11.000 pessoas provenientes de 126 países.

É a maior feira do sector mineiro em África e reúne, além de governantes, os maiores operadores do mundo. Angola está representada, a nível governamental, pelo ministro dos Recursos Minerais, Petróleo e Gás, Diamantino de Azevedo. Em declarações à imprensa, afirmou que o país traz ao Mining Indaba 2024 um quadro geral “das áreas disponíveis e oportunidades de negócio” para atrair investimentos.

A primeira parte do evento teve lugar no “palco governamental”, onde o ministro sul-africanos dos Recursos Minerais e Energia, Gwede Mantashe, defende cooperação entre os países africanos para desenvolver o sector mineiro de forma sustentável, garantindo, essencialmente, o desenvolvimento das comunidades, muitas delas ainda carentes electricidade, apesar do potencial mineiro do continente. Aliás, segundo um relatório recente da PwC, intitulado “Africa Energy Review 2023”, o acesso à electricidade em África enfrenta um sério desafio, especialmente na África Subsariana, onde aproximadamente metade da população não tem electricidade.

No geral, os líderes africanos defenderam uma mudança de paradigma, “sendo que África não pode continuar a ser mera exportadora de recursos mineirais”, mas sim garantir que se crie um legado “de crescimento sustentável e desenvolvimento das comunidades”, sem deixar de impactar as tendências da indústria mineira internacional. “A hora de agir é agora”, disse o ministro sul-africano dos Recursos Minerais e Energia.

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Anúncio da assinatura do acordo para prospecção de cobre

When, while the lovely valley teems with vapor around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty, who formed us in his own image, and the breath of that universal love which bears and sustains us, as it floats around us in an eternity of bliss; and then, my friend, when darkness overspreads my eyes, and heaven and earth seem to dwell in my soul and absorb its power, like the form of a beloved mistress, then I often think with longing, Oh, would I could describe these conceptions, could impress upon paper all that is living so full and warm within me, that it might be the mirror of my soul, as my soul is the mirror of the infinite God!

O my friend — but it is too much for my strength — I sink under the weight of the splendor of these visions! A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine.

I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now.

When, while the lovely valley teems with vapor around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty, who formed us in his own image, and the breath of that universal love which bears and sustains us, as it floats around us in an eternity of bliss; and then, my friend, when darkness overspreads my eyes, and heaven and earth seem to dwell in my soul and absorb its power, like the form of a beloved mistress, then I often think with longing, Oh, would I could describe these conceptions, could impress upon paper all that is living so full and warm within me.

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Conferência do sector mineiro

When, while the lovely valley teems with vapor around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty, who formed us in his own image, and the breath of that universal love which bears and sustains us, as it floats around us in an eternity of bliss; and then, my friend, when darkness overspreads my eyes, and heaven and earth seem to dwell in my soul and absorb its power, like the form of a beloved mistress, then I often think with longing, Oh, would I could describe these conceptions, could impress upon paper all that is living so full and warm within me, that it might be the mirror of my soul, as my soul is the mirror of the infinite God!

O my friend — but it is too much for my strength — I sink under the weight of the splendor of these visions! A wonderful serenity has taken possession of my entire soul, like these sweet mornings of spring which I enjoy with my whole heart. I am alone, and feel the charm of existence in this spot, which was created for the bliss of souls like mine.

I am so happy, my dear friend, so absorbed in the exquisite sense of mere tranquil existence, that I neglect my talents. I should be incapable of drawing a single stroke at the present moment; and yet I feel that I never was a greater artist than now.

When, while the lovely valley teems with vapor around me, and the meridian sun strikes the upper surface of the impenetrable foliage of my trees, and but a few stray gleams steal into the inner sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream; and, as I lie close to the earth, a thousand unknown plants are noticed by me: when I hear the buzz of the little world among the stalks, and grow familiar with the countless indescribable forms of the insects and flies, then I feel the presence of the Almighty, who formed us in his own image, and the breath of that universal love which bears and sustains us, as it floats around us in an eternity of bliss; and then, my friend, when darkness overspreads my eyes, and heaven and earth seem to dwell in my soul and absorb its power, like the form of a beloved mistress, then I often think with longing, Oh, would I could describe these conceptions, could impress upon paper all that is living so full and warm within me.