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Foreigners feast on our minerals while Zimbos starve

OUR country is richly blessed with natural resources, yet it is our people who continue to suffer in poverty. From diamonds to gold, platinum to lithium, our mineral wealth has been a constant source of international interest, but one cann…

Published: 06 Sep 2025 at 20:19hrs | 495 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi

UK resets ties with Zimbabwe in push for critical minerals

Zimbabwe and the UK are rekindling diplomatic ties after almost three decades of tension, driven by a global surge in demand for critical minerals that's led the former colonial power to pursue $1 billion in deals with the resource-rich na…

Published: 08 Aug 2025 at 08:58hrs | 835 | by Staff reporter

US$1m for strategic minerals licence in Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe has gazetted a sweeping new Mines and Minerals Bill that seeks to clamp down on speculative mining claim hoarding while ensuring only credible investors participate in the extraction of strategic minerals. The Bill, introduced las…

Published: 29 Jun 2025 at 12:12hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter

Calls mount for amendment of Zimbabwe's outdated Mines and Minerals Act

The long-overdue amendment of Zimbabwe's Mines and Minerals Act (Chapter 21:05) has become a pressing issue as the country grapples with mineral leakages and a lack of transparency in its mining sector. The original Act, enacted in 1961 du…

Published: 30 May 2025 at 12:15hrs | 422 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa offers Lukashenko minerals

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has extended an invitation to Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko to explore Zimbabwe's vast mineral wealth, as part of efforts to revive the country's struggling economy.The offer was made during Mnangag…

Published: 16 May 2025 at 09:44hrs | 125 | by Staff reporter

Makomo set to bounce back from curatorship

Makomo Resources, one of Zimbabwe's major players in the coal mining sector, is set to emerge from corporate rescue next week after nearly four years under administration.The company, which operates in the northwestern coal fields of the c…

Published: 15 Mar 2025 at 11:58hrs | 495 | by Staff reporter

Plundering of Zimbabwe's minerals stalling a just energy transition in fighting climate change

In his address at a High-Level Meeting on Resourcing the Energy Transition with Justice and Equity, held on the sidelines of COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa delivered a message that appeared to echo the n…

Published: 14 Nov 2024 at 12:37hrs | 175 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zimbabwe misses mineral revenue target

Zimbabwe faces a challenging economic outlook for 2024, with economists warning of reduced foreign exchange reserves, diminished government revenue, and decreased economic activity due to lower global metal prices.The Minerals Marketing Co…

Published: 19 Jul 2024 at 06:20hrs | 543 | by Staff reporter

Minerals, tobacco dominate Zimbabwe's export list

In the third quarter of the year, Zimbabwe's export landscape continued to be dominated by raw minerals and tobacco, as outlined in the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe's (RBZ) third-quarter report.According to the central bank's report, gold emer…

Published: 27 Dec 2023 at 15:09hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe won't accept raw deal on minerals

ZIMBABWE will not accept exploitative deals in the mining sector, but will only agree to investments that give it the "maximum benefit" from its non-renewable resources.This was said by President Mnangagwa as part of his contributions to a…

Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 05:34hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Precious minerals smuggled through Zimbabwe porous borders

ZIMBABWE is losing precious minerals through porous borders, with security forces and border officials manning the entry points seriously incapacitated to plug illicit flows, a report by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Defence, Ho…

Published: 13 Jun 2023 at 07:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Govt shuts down Bikita Minerals

ZIMBABWE'S largest lithium mine Bikita Minerals, currently owned by China's Sinomine Resource Group, has been ordered to suspend operations until it complies with legal provisions that include labour, environmental and immigration laws.Sin…

Published: 16 May 2023 at 05:10hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Good news is we have a digital currency but allow us to trade our minerals

From primary school to high school we are told the importance of minerals but are ordinary Zimbabweans gaining anything from their Zimbabwe's minerals.The only currency that is stable is the mineral value in Zimbabwe. The Zimbabwean dollar…

Published: 24 Apr 2023 at 07:34hrs | 5 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi

Did thousands die so that only a few enrich themselves from our minerals and land?

Having just woken up this Saturday morning, and turning on the television - I never expected to be greeted by such a heart-wrenching scene. There was a documentary narrating a harrowing ambush on Mutorahuku Base, in Mhandu, by Rhodesian fo…

Published: 01 Apr 2023 at 08:53hrs | 2 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

Zimbabwe govt mulls national minerals reserve

Mining companies exploiting precious and high-value minerals in the country will now be required to cede a portion of their refined mineral produce to the Government as part payment of royalties under a new policy to build a national reser…

Published: 09 Oct 2022 at 07:51hrs | 13 | 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.Speaking at a Christmas party for the Border…

Published: 14 Dec 2021 at 05:45hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter

Minerals and natural resources a solution to Zimbabweâ€™s economic turnaround program

We say Zimbabwe's minerals and natural resources belong to the people and we continue to allow colonial and oppressive laws that do not allow the natural black landowners to take advantage of the God-given resources. Let us empower the peo…

Published: 25 Nov 2021 at 19:37hrs | 13 | by Engineer Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi

ZACC widens dragnet to curb minerals smuggling

THE Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) has widened the scope of its investigations into the smuggling of minerals out of the country, with the anti-corruption watchdog adopting a collaborative approach with multiple law enforcement…

Published: 30 May 2021 at 08:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe mineral exports exceed target

ATTRACTIVE international prices for major minerals except gold, coupled with stability in the mining sector despite the COVID-19-related lockdowns has seen Zimbabwe's mineral exports exceed the projected numbers for the 11 months of 2020 b…

Published: 04 Jan 2021 at 22:25hrs | | by Staff reporter

LET's Advocacy for Agribusiness in Africa

The forefathers in Africa survived from the same agriculture and minerals. All needed is to preserve the African culture ways of farming diluted with innovative ways .The main challenge is on trying to copy and paste everything from West c…

Published: 02 Oct 2020 at 14:13hrs | 4 | by Enos Denhere

NRZ seeks mandate to transport heavy metals, minerals

The National Railways of Zimbabwe (NRZ), through the Transport and Infrastructural Development Ministry, is lobbying Cabinet to promulgate a Statutory Instrument that would ring-fence heavy metals and minerals to be transported by rail. In…

Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 05:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Traditional leafy vegetables into your garden

A garden can be defined as a piece of land next to a house, meant for growing flowers, fruits or vegetables. A garden with a variety of rape, spinach, lettuce, okra, spider flower, moringa, pigweed, black jack, creeping vines, tomato and y…

Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 10:10hrs | 53 | by Praxedis Dube, Rico Ihle, Wim Heijman and Paul Struik

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