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CIVIC society organisations (CSOs) have urged government to quickly finalise amendments to the Mines and Minerals Bill, and set up environmental

The Bill came into the picture in 2015 and has taken over six years before being enacted into law.

ZIMBABWE has been ranked the least attractive destination for mining investments in the world in terms of mining policy and mineral potential.

  Bereng Mpaki THE Senate has rejected the Mines and Minerals (Amendment) Bill 2021, which seeks to legalise artisanal and small scale (ASM) mining. The upper house of parliament refused to approve the Bill on the grounds that it does not explicitly state that only those considered to be indigenous Basotho can be artisanal or […]

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PARLIAMENTARY Portfolio Committee on Mines and Mining Development chairperson, Mr. Edmund Mkaratigwa has said the draft Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill should be tabled in the legislative assembly during the first session of Parliament. He said the Bill should be among the key priorities during this session of Parliament. This comes as the sector is…

ZIMBABWE’S 1,5 million strong small-scale miners yesterday said they were worried that the much-talked about Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill

THE Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (Zela) has said development projects should not contribute to human rights violations.

Opposition MPA says removal orders should carry cogent reasons

IN one of his satirical books – Soza Boy, if my memory serves me right – the Ogoni writer, Ken Saro-Wiwa (who was brutally executed in November 1995 by General Sani Abacha, the corrupt Nigerian dictator) wrote that corruption continued to exist in Nigeria “because government cannot catch government”. I laughed at that statement when I first came across it around 1986. And I was reminded of Saro-Wiwas words the other day as I watched an extraordinary video on Joy News, in which a very ...