Minerals in Hand, Africa’s Trade Envoys Head for the US

Trade experts suggest that African countries respond to U.S. tariffs with diplomacy and avoid retaliation to get the best trade agreements.

Trucks loading ore from the open pit of the Jwaneng diamond mine in Botswana, on May 11, 2023. Monirul Bhuiyan/AFP via Getty Images

JOHANNESBURG—Mcebisi Jonas does not usually suffer from nerves. If he did, he would not have survived a brutal guerrilla campaign against South Africa’s apartheid foot soldiers in the 1970s and 1980s.

“As a cadre for the ANC [then-banned African National Congress], I was fighting for freedom from racism, for black people’s right to vote, for human rights,” Jonas, former South African minister of finance, told The Epoch Times.