News » Chris Goko, Executive Assistant Editor
Wednesday, 14 November 2012 10:34
VICTORIA FALLS - Zimbabwean gem miners Mbada Diamonds (Mbada) and Anjin have railed at the West, saying its restrictive measures against President Robert Mugabe’s inner cabal were hurting capital inflows into the country. In separate addresses to a tripartite diamond conference...Read More
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Wednesday, 31 October 2012 10:30
JOHANNESBURG - South African police fired rubber bullets and teargas on yesterday at striking Amplats miners who were protesting against a union-brokered deal to end a six-week wildcat walkout at the top platinum producer. As they moved into a shanty town...Read More
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Friday, 26 October 2012 14:18
JOHANNESBURG - South African unions and gold-mining companies have agreed a deal aimed at settling a bitter long-running dispute. The National Union of Mineworkers and two other unions signed the pay deal with industry body the Chamber of Mines, but few...Read More
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Friday, 28 September 2012 12:48
HARARE - Government has announced it will resume remitting pension funds to former workers of Malawian origin who were retrenched in the past. Remittance of the funds was stopped because of lack of records and economic problems experienced in the country....Read More
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Monday, 24 September 2012 10:03
HARARE - Development workers do not necessarily have to come from the West. A mining expert from Zimbabwe is helping to improve the lives of small-scale miners in Mongolia. On a small-scale mining site in the vast grasslands of Western...Read More
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Monday, 17 September 2012 16:29
JOHANNESBURG - Firebrand politician Julius Malema has been barred by police from addressing striking miners at South Africa's Marikana mine. Some 2,000 miners had gathered at a stadium near the mine, some 60 miles (100km) north-west of Johannesburg. Strikes have already...Read More
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Wednesday, 05 September 2012 14:09
HARARE - The Zimbabwe Miners’ Federation (ZMF) says there is need to capacitate small scale miners to ensure the attainment of the projected double-digit growth in the mining industry and to curb rampant gold smuggling. The local mining industry which is...Read More
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Friday, 31 August 2012 09:33
JOHANNESBURG - South African authorities have charged 270 miners with murder in the killings of 34 fellow workers, even though police are believed to have fired the fatal shots. The workers were arrested after the deadly clash with police and were...Read More
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Sunday, 19 August 2012 15:10
JOHANNESBURG - Some miners vowed that they will fight until death, as police announced a casualty toll from the previous day’s shooting by officers of striking miners: 34 dead and 78 wounded. Wives of miners at the Lonmin Marikana platinum mine,...Read More
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