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Hope amid fear as relatives await fate of miners
FAMILY members of seven miners from Bucks Mine in Colleen Bawn sit around small fires and watch helplessly as rescue workers go in and out of the shaft where their relatives have been trapped undergro...Published: 17 May 2022 at 06:34hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
7 feared dead in mine collapse
SEVEN miners from Bucks Mine in Colleen Bawn are feared dead after hoisting ropes to a skip bringing them up the shaft from underground snapped, plunging them back on a free-fall of about 200 meters....Published: 16 May 2022 at 06:20hrs | 437 | by Staff reporter
Mine owner kicked out by invaders
A MINE owner in Matobo has lost his mine to invaders who are reportedly being assisted by the government officials in the takeover of the property.Ndodana Moyo says he has been the owner...Published: 01 May 2022 at 20:46hrs | 914 | by Stephen Jakes
Miners approach Mnangagwa over Bill
ZIMBABWE'S small-scale miners, agitated by government's attitude towards their input into the Mines and Minerals Amendment Bill, have taken their issue to President Emmerson Mnangagwa.The Bill...Published: 26 Apr 2022 at 08:23hrs | 109 | by Staff reporter
2 drown in mine shaft
TWO men were found dead in a flooded mine shaft in Gokwe South, police have said.Munyaradzi Muduri (33) and Admire Mazarahanda (22) both from Chief Njelelele in Gokwe, died upon admission at G...Published: 20 Apr 2022 at 08:03hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
Violence breaks out at Matobo's Dandi 5 mine
VIOLENCE erupted on Wednesday last week at Dandi 5 gold mine in Matobo, Matabeleland South province, after people suspected to be from Harare invaded the mine.The gang reportedly used machetes...Published: 19 Apr 2022 at 06:39hrs | 642 | by Staff reporter
Mines ministry financial accounts in shambles
THE Auditor-General's (AG) office has redflagged the ministry of Mines and Mining Development's financial accounts citing a possible understatement of an amount disclosed as public financial assets....Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 12:11hrs | 251 | by Staff reporter
Police bar lawyer, media in a machete gangs indaba
OFFICER Commanding Mashonaland Central Commissioner Witcliff Makamachi was forced yesterday to descend with his provincial team to Guruv...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 21:23hrs | 1376 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Haulage trucks damage highway
THE Bulawayo-Victoria Falls highway is in a bad state especially in Hwange where the road is almost caving in at some sections, with haulage trucks belonging to mining companies being blamed for infli...Published: 18 Mar 2022 at 05:35hrs | 376 | by Staf reporter
Zimbabwe faces huddles before gold league return
ZIMBABWE is still struggling to be readmitted to the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), more than 13 years since it was booted out of the world's largest gold and silver wholesale market....Published: 14 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | 145 | by Staff reporter
Miner dies as locomotive plunges 100m
A 36 YEAR OLD MINER from Matabeleland South died on the spot after a locomotive he was driving underground at Blanket mine developed an electrical fault resulting from a power cut forcing the machine ...Published: 09 Mar 2022 at 14:14hrs | 1613 | by Stephen Jakes
Messy fight over gold mine
A fight has erupted in the gold rich Mazowe area — 40km north of Harare where a group of farmers are reportedly disrupting operations at a mine.A long running attempt to have the alleged int...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 17:41hrs | 415 | by Staff reporter
Corrupt VID officers warned
Reports that officers at the Vehicle Inspectorate Department (VID) have been conniving for years with driving schools to demand bribes for learner's and driver's licences show the need for firm action...Published: 03 Mar 2022 at 05:39hrs | 260 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's governance attributed for Zimbabwe lithium exploration success
ASX-listed battery metals project developer Prospect Resources attributes its current success, especially in Zimbabwe, to a "resurgence" of that country's governance and "open for business" mining sec...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:41hrs | 941 | by Staff reporter
25 Govt officials arrested in one week
Twenty-five Government officials have been arrested over the past week on allegations of criminal abuse of office, or fraud and stealing large quantities of bitumen meant for the rehabilitation of the...Published: 01 Mar 2022 at 05:29hrs | 483 | by Staff reporter
Gudyanga jailed
Former Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Mines Francis Gudyanga has been sentenced to two and half years in jail for corruptly claiming sitting allowances from a dissolved Minerals Marketing Corp...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 18:30hrs | 1831 | by Staff reporter
Govt urged to take Zisco revival seriously
BUSINESS executives have urged government to take the resuscitation of the moribund ZiscoSteel seriously following the announcement of a new investor on Tuesday.Government announced in a post-...Published: 25 Feb 2022 at 07:17hrs | 95 | by Staff reporter
Gudyanga to pay back the money
FORMER permanent secretary in the Ministry of Mines Francis Gudyanga, who was convicted of defrauding Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) of US$29 000 after claiming sitting allowances o...Published: 23 Feb 2022 at 16:13hrs | 412 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's oligarchs: The heirs of Cecil Rhodes
As Zimbabwe's economy has spiralled down, with one million economic refugees in South Africa alone and ordinary people facing shortages of food, fuel, medicine and shelter, there is a class of people ...Published: 08 Feb 2022 at 18:29hrs | 2032 | by Phillip van Niekerk and a Zim-based Research Team
Chinese quarry mine unsettles Bulawayo residents amid bribery claims
SITHANDEKILE Dube* is jolted by yet another heavy blast that just shook her house in Bulawayo's Pumula North high-density suburb.The blasts have become a common occurrence in the bustling neig...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 08:22hrs | 957 | by Staff reporter
Mudha and nexus of Kwekwe gold terror
AT the time former president Robert Mugabe was deposed in a military coup in November 2017, police were investigating senior Zanu-PF officials linked to then Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa over all...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:00hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
Power play rocks Zimra
THE Zimbabwe Revenue Authority (Zimra) board was allegedly pressured by Treasury to appoint Morris Mpofu as acting commissioner-general, a move which was quickly reversed last week by the government i...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:13hrs | 400 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe gold deliveries jump 56%
Gold deliveries to Fidelity Printers and Refiners, Zimbabwe's sole authorised buyer of bullion, jumped by 55,5 percent to 29,6 tonnes in 2021, figures from the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) show....Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 23:08hrs | 179 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe edges closer to US$12bn target?
Government and private sector players in the mining industry are resolute in their commitments towards achieving the US$12 billion by 2023.Zimbabwe launched the Strategic Road to the Achieveme...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 05:53hrs | 460 | by Staff reporter
Marry Chiwenga and Sipho Malunga bring bad omens to Zanu-PF!
There are some behaviours, which the wisest among the Bantu call bad omens. These are signs, real or imagined, of ill fortune or catastrophe in the future.When we were children, and my f...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 18:58hrs | 2083 | by Ken Mufuka
Mnangagwa administration elbows out British investor under a cloud
The Zimbabwean government has - under unclear circumstances - frozen a multi-million diamond deal involving a London-listed British company, Vast Resources Plc, as the post-coup administration increas...Published: 19 Dec 2021 at 07:09hrs | 2518 | by Staff reporter
Police arrest 1 306 over precious minerals
POLICE this year arrested about 1 306 people for illegally dealing in precious minerals and elephant tusks, recovering millions of dollars' worth of contraband, a senior officer said on Saturday....Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:45hrs | 199 | by Staff reporter
Botswana investors launch battle to reclaim gold mine
FOUR Botswana nationals have appealed to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc), the Foreign Affairs ministry and other state organs in a bid to claim part of a gold ...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 18:48hrs | 27 | by Staff reporter
Rebate on duty scammers exposed
GOVERNMENT has tightened the conditions for businesses benefiting from the rebate of duty facilities amid concerns over lack of transparency and accountability, which has seen some beneficiaries makin...Published: 29 Nov 2021 at 05:32hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Miner dies in a deep shaft
A 16-YEAR-OLD Chiweshe boy slipped into 75 meter deep disused shaft, and died while illegally prospecting for gold yesterday. Leer...Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 17:58hrs | 9 | by Lloyd Rabaya/Simbarashe Sithole
Zimplats, Mines Ministry sign MOU
The Ministry of Mines and Mining Development and the country's largest platinum miner, Zimbabwe Platinum Holdings (Zimplats), have signed a memorandum of understanding that will see the mining giant i...Published: 29 Oct 2021 at 07:56hrs | 21 | by Staff Reporter
Fidelity wins repossession of forfeited Gold claim
Fidelity Printers and Refineries has finally repossessed its claim that was forfeited by the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development last year, after the Supreme Court confirmed an interim order gran...Published: 26 Oct 2021 at 06:36hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
Belarus elites' golden deals with Mnangagwa
IN MARCH 2018, Belarus' autocratic President Alexander Lukashenko dispatched his right-hand man Viktor Sheiman to Zimbabwe to negotiate trade and business deals on the government's behalf.Shei...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
600 Matebeleland South miners forfeit gold claims
CLOSE to 600 gold claims owned by small-scale miners in Matebeleland South province have been forfeited to the Mines ministry after the owners failed to pay inspection fees.Zimbabwe Miners Fed...Published: 06 Oct 2021 at 05:48hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zacc probes gold mine row
BLACKGATE investments, a firm that last week lost the disputed Ran Gold Mines near Bindura, has mounted fresh attempts to reclaim the asset, submitting explosive dossiers to anti-corruption agencies a...Published: 01 Oct 2021 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Karo plows ahead with mega platinum project
Karo Resources' integrated platinum project in Mhondoro-Ngezi is still proceeding despite disruptions caused by the coronavirus.The project involves mining platinum, chrome, coal and the estab...Published: 26 Sep 2021 at 19:36hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Minister in trouble over gold mine
SPARKS flew in the Ministry of Mines this week, as the long-running dispute over Ran Gold Mines, a 122-year-old asset in Bindura, took a new twist, with an angry party to the deadlock accusing Mines m...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 09:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimasco completes feasibility study for Mberengwa furnaces
ZIMASCO, a local ferro-chrome producer owned by China's Sinosteel, has completed a feasibility study for the construction of furnaces in Neta, Mberengwa District, where it intends to build new mines, ...Published: 22 Sep 2021 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa dragged into mine dispute
THE names of Zimbabwe's late strongman Robert Mugabe and his successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) have been dragged into a blazing dispute over Ran Gold Mine, a Mashonaland Central domic...Published: 17 Sep 2021 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean engineer runs Afghanistan's gemology plant
A ZIMBABWEAN engineer, Clever Sithole (CS), last year made history when he was appointed head gemologist at a United States Agency for International Development (USAID)-funded gemstone processing proj...Published: 14 Aug 2021 at 18:31hrs | 44 | by Staff reporter
Government reclaims 220 mining claims in Matabeleland South
THE Government has forfeited about 220 small-scale mining claims in Matabeleland South Province over non-payment of inspection fees.In a circular seen by Sunday Business, the Ministry of Mines...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chrome ore export banned
Exports of chrome ore have been banned with immediate effect and exports of chrome concentrates from July next year, as there are now enough smelters in the country to ensure that all exports are of f...Published: 04 Aug 2021 at 06:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZACC moves to seize US$6m ill-gotten assets
The Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) wants to see the corrupt both jailed and stripped of their ill-gotten gains and so has this year so far referred 76 cases to the National Prosecuting Aut...Published: 02 Aug 2021 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Government halts Chinese mining activities in game reserve
GOVERNMENT departments implicated in granting Chinese firm, Afrochine, a controversial special mining grant inside Mavuradona Game Park were on Monday summoned for a crisis meeting in which they trade...Published: 28 Jul 2021 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's cabinet approves six copper projects
CABINET has approved the Greater Chinhoyi Copper Development Programme which is set to contribute to the US$12 billion mining economy by 2023. The Government has recognised the mining industry...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 09:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Diamonds worth US$140m vanish
ROUGH diamonds worth an estimated US$140 million dollars have disappeared from the supposedly impenetrable Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe (MMCZ) and Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Company (...Published: 14 Jul 2021 at 09:22hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe can do more than just receiving covid-19 vaccines donations - Mhondoro-Ngezi SMP
In a recent telephone conversation with this reporter, the Shadow-Member of Parliament (SMP) for Mhondoro-Ngezi Constituency situate in Mashonaland West Province has commended the Government of Zimbab...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 09:09hrs | 8 | by Maxwell Teedzai
Mining fees hike to spawn opaque deals
ZIMBABWE'S smallscale miners warned on Friday that the industry could further relapse into an epicentre for backstage deals following government's move to hike fees by wide margins.Under norma...Published: 04 Jul 2021 at 14:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
Machete gangs resurface
THE infamous MaShurugwi machete gangs have reportedly resurfaced in Guruve, Mashonaland Central province, where they recently attacked and injured four villagers.The return of violence prompte...Published: 04 Jun 2021 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Machete gangs resurface in Guruve
FOUR people from Mudhindo,Guruve are nursing injuries from machete gangs who are terrorising Mudhindo in search of gold.The gangs who a...Published: 03 Jun 2021 at 12:29hrs | 3 | by Simbarashe Sithole
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