<p>HARARE (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe has bought two Boeing 777 aircraft and an Embraer plane from Malaysia, the finance minister said on Wednesday, adding the planes would be leased to a new local airline until national carrier Air Zimbabwe returned to profitability.</p>
<p>Patrick Chinamasa said Harare had agreed with an unidentified Malaysian firm to buy four Boeing 777 planes for $70 million but had so far paid for two.</p>
<p>The government had also paid for a small Embraer plane and plans to add five more such aircraft.</p>
<p>The new planes are owned by a state-owned special purpose vehicle called Zimbabwe Aviation Leasing Company.</p>
<p>During a ceremony to receive the first Boeing 777 in Harare, Chinamasa said the aircraft would be used by Zimbabwe Airways, a new carrier whose ownership was not immediately disclosed.</p>
<p>Local media reports had linked Zimbabwe Airways and the new planes to former president Robert Mugabe’s family, but Chinamasa said that was false.</p>
<p>Chinamasa would also not comment on speculation the government could be the owner of the new airline and would ultimately dissolve the troubled Air Zimbabwe.</p>
<p>He said, however, the government could not continue supporting loss-making Air Zimbabwe because it was like “putting resources into a bottomless pit.” Air Zimbabwe has debts of more than $300 million.</p>
<p>“Air Zimbabwe must put their house in order and as long as they don’t put their house in order, these planes I can lease to any third party who can pay treasury the lease fees for the utilisations of the aeroplanes,” Chinamasa said.</p>
<p>Chinamasa said the Boeing planes had a lifespan of 15 to 20 years.</p>
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<p>According to The Herald, Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote has renewed his interest in pursuing his USD 1.5bn investment in Zimbabwe and on the 9 April, dispatched an advance team comprising geologists. The team will be in Zimbabwe for 10 days.</p>
<p>The delegation is expected to meet President Mnangagwa and Mines and Mining Development Minister Winston Chitando. Mr Dangote visited the country in 2015 and expressed interest in power generation, coal mining and cement production.</p>
<p>He was then frustrated by the previous administration of Mr Robert Mugabe. In an interview at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport, Dangote Industries’ senior geologist Dr Norash Kumar said they were interested in mining coal. &#8220;It depends on the mineral potential that we are looking for,&#8221; he said.</p>
<p>Dangote Industries local representative Josie Mahachi said they were hopeful things would work this time around. &#8220;The technical group is back in the country,&#8221; she said. &#8220;With the new dispensation, things are going to move on smoothly”, she added. This is the team that the president of Dangote Holdings, Dangote, has sent to Zimbabwe to do the groundwork before his major visit in the few weeks to come. &#8220;They are here in the country for 10 days and looking for an investment of USD 1.5bn.&#8221;</p>
<p>Buy Zimbabwe chairperson Dr Anxious Masuka said the visit by the Dangote team presented an opportunity for the country to create market linkages for the creation of wealth and jobs. &#8220;This investment fits into our narrative &#8211; the use of local resources to ensure that there are jobs,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The investment by this group will surely ensure that jobs are created”. He also added: &#8220;We are also looking into export opportunities out of those investments. I urge Zimbabweans to embrace this and (reduce) the bureaucracy to quicken the pace so that we can realise this investment sooner than later.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dangote Industries recently invested UDS 400m in a cement manufacturing plant in Zambia. The firm is importing coal from Zimbabwe. According to the Zimbabwe Investment Authority, a total of 162 investment projects valued at USD 1.52bn were approved in 2017 compared to 164 projects valued at USD 2.3bn in 2016. Zimbabwe expects approved investment proposals to reach a record USD 2.5bn in 2018, on the back of growing positive investor sentiment and interest following political changes that took place in November 2017. Zimbabwe expects to grow its foreign direct investment portfolio to generate more jobs, create wealth and contribute significantly to its GDP as part of efforts to revive the economy. Of course much of this will depend on the assessment of the presidential election due mid-2018, with many using this as a benchmark for whether or not the country has indeed moved into a more democratic and investor friendly phase.</p>


Africa’s richest man Aliko Dangote is eyeing Zimbabwe

<p>HARARE (Reuters) &#8211; Zimbabwe will invite Western powers to monitor its national elections for the first time in more than 15 years, official papers showed on Tuesday, ending a ban imposed by veteran former leader Robert Mugabe.</p>
<p>The vote, scheduled for July, is seen is a major test for President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s democratic credentials since he came to power in November after a de facto army coup ousted 94-year-old Mugabe.</p>
<p>Zimbabwe will invite the United States, the European Union’s Commission and parliament, Australia and the Commonwealth among 46 countries and 15 organisations, a list released by the foreign affairs ministry showed.</p>
<p>The countries and groups on the list were all previously banned from watching elections in 2002 after Mugabe accused them of favouring his opponents.</p>
<p>The West slapped sanctions on Mugabe and members of his inner circle, accusing them of rigging a series of votes &#8211; charges they denied.</p>
<p>Joey Bimha, permanent secretary at the foreign ministry, said the invitations would be sent out soon but declined to give more details.</p>
<p>The election will pit Mnangagwa against a clutch of opponents including 40-year-old Nelson Chamisa from the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change. It will be the first time that Mugabe has not been on the ballot since independence from Britain in 1980.</p>
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Zimbabwe invites Western powers to observe elections

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<p>Source: <a href="http://https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/09/zimbabwe-us-could-lift-sanctions-if-mnangagwa-holds-fair-elections.html">The US could lift sanctions on Zimbabwe — but only if the new president holds fair elections</a></p>
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<li>U.S. Senators Christopher Coons and Jeff Flake met with Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa in Harare over the weekend to &#8220;explore ways of strengthening the bilateral relationship,&#8221; according to the U.S. embassy in Zimbabwe.</li>
<li>Coons and Flake are behind a proposed amendment to the U.S.&#8217; Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act which outlines the steps the African country must fulfill for U.S.-imposed sanctions to be lifted, namely the holding of &#8220;free and fair&#8221; elections.</li>
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<p>Two U.S. senators have met with Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa as part of an exploratory trip which could lead to the U.S. lifting sanctions on the once-pariah African state.</p>
<p>U.S. Senators Christopher Coons and Jeff Flake&#8217;s visit to the Zimbabwean capital of Harare over the weekend was to &#8220;explore ways of strengthening the bilateral relationship,&#8221; said a tweet by the U.S. embassy there. The two politicians met with the new president, as well as members of the opposition and civil society.</p>
<p>Coons and Flake, both on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, are behind a proposed amendment to the U.S.&#8217; Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Act (ZDERA). The bill details the steps which Zimbabwe must take for U.S. sanctions to be lifted, namely the holding of free and fair elections.</p>
<p>&#8220;The president (Mnangagwa) has made a commitment to take action, but some of the important actions required for progress towards the conditions for free and fair and credible elections have not yet happened,&#8221; Coons told the media, <a href="http://www.thezimbabwemail.com/main/trump-opens-window-for-mnangagwa/">as reported by the Zimbabwe Mail</a>.</p>
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<p>Mnangagwa has said that he is committed to holding open elections in July of this year and has invited external observers to the expected event.</p>
<p>It is hoped that such elections could lead to the removal of U.S.-imposed sanctions on Zimbabwe, which has seen its economy crippled by decades of mismanagement under former President <strong>Robert Mugabe</strong>.</p>
<p>But, &#8220;Lifting U.S. sanctions is time consuming and not straightforward,&#8221; Alex Vines, head of the Africa program at think tank Chatham House, told CNBC via e-mail. &#8220;The easiest way would be for the Zimbabwean government to prove that it&#8217;s fulfilled the requirements of ZDERA.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nonetheless, Coons and Flake&#8217;s visit could symbolize the latest in a warming of relations between the U.S. and Zimbabwe. In March, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/11/opinion/zimbabwe-emmerson-mnangagwa.html">Mnangagwa penned a column in the New York Times</a> which highlighted Zimbabwe&#8217;s newfound openness.</p>
<p>In February this year, U.S. chain Pizza Hut opened its first branch in Harare. The move, according to the <a href="https://zw.usembassy.gov/american-franchise-pizza-hut-opens-zimbabwe/">U.S. embassy&#8217;s website</a>, &#8220;is a demonstration that American companies see attractive business prospects in Zimbabwe.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We would hope to expand the people to people relationships, relationships between companies, hospitals, researchers, but also much more investment from the United States to reviving the economy to rebuilding infrastructure and advancing the country,&#8221; Coons <a href="https://www.newsday.co.zw/2018/04/us-sets-terms-to-revive-zim-business-ties/">told Zimbabwean news outlet NewsDay</a>.</p>
<p>The U.S. has imposed financial sanctions on Zimbabwe since 2001, in response to human rights abuses by Mugabe. The sanctions include financial and travel restrictions, as well as banning the transfer of defense items or services.</p>
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<p>&#8220;The new president (of Zimbabwe) can expect to get both financial aid, more help with infrastructure (including the expansion of Harare airport) and technological assistance, as well as Chinese participation in agricultural projects,&#8221; Jonathan Fenby, China chairman at research firm TS Lombard, told CNBC last week of the visit.</p>
<p>In what could signify further rapprochement with the West, it has been reported that Zimbabwe is in talks to re-join the Commonwealth, a 53-nation bloc consisting of the U.K. and its former colonial territories. But, a spokesperson confirmed to CNBC on Friday that the organization has not received a formal application from Zimbabwe to do so.</p>
<p>Mugabe withdrew Zimbabwe from the group in 2003 following a dispute over sanctions.</p>
<p>Zimbabwe is a former British colony, previously known as Rhodesia, and was declared independent in 1980.</p>


The US could lift sanctions on Zimbabwe — but only if the new president holds fair elections

<p>BEIJING (Reuters) &#8211; Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday told President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe that they should work towards a new chapter in ties, during the African leader’s first state visit to China since he seized power last year.</p>
<p>Mnangagwa, who was sworn in as president in November after a de facto military coup ended Robert Mugabe’s 37-year rule, has vowed to rebuild his country’s ravaged economy and re-engage with the international community.</p>
<p>China had considered Mugabe a “good friend” in a relationship dating back to its support for Zimbabwe’s independence war, but pointedly failed to support him when he was ousted.</p>
<p>“I’m willing to work with Mr President to jointly map out our future cooperation and write a new chapter in China-Zimbabwe relations for the benefit of our two peoples,” Xi said, during a meeting in Beijing.</p>
<p>China has growing interest in investing in Africa’s natural resources and has poured more than $100 billion into roads, railways, mines, powerlines and factories on the continent over the last decade.</p>
<p>Trade between China and African countries reached $85.3 billion in the first half of 2017, according to Chinese state media.</p>
<p>Xi said China has been happy to see the economic reform policies that Mnangagwa put in place after the “peaceful, smooth” transfer of power.</p>
<p>Mnangagwa said that Zimbabwe appreciated China’s political support and goodwill and thanked Xi for sending an envoy immediately upon his inauguration.</p>
<p>“That was a great honour,” he said.</p>
<p>China continued to invest in large infrastructure projects in Zimbabwe throughout Mugabe’s rule as his government, sanctioned by Western nations for human rights abuses, increasingly turned to Beijing for help.</p>
<p>With his visit, Zimbabwe would attempt to tap China’s huge financial resources, technical expertise and modern technology in order to help revive the economy, Mnangagwa told the official Xinhua news agency in an interview on Saturday.</p>
<p>In December, Zimbabwe signed a $153 million loan agreement with China to expand and refurbish its international airport in Harare in a bid to attract investors and tourists, the first such deal under the new government.</p>
<p>China’s foreign ministry said a trip to Beijing by Zimbabwe’s military chief one week before the army seized power in the South African nation was a “normal military exchange” amid speculation at the time he had come to brief on plans to seize power.</p>
<p>Mnangagwa is likely to join other African leaders coming to Beijing in September for a summit held once every three years.</p>
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<p>Zimbabwe’s Mines Minister Winston Chitando said amendments to the country’s mining laws will be finalized in the coming few months. CNBC Africa&#8217;s Daniel Sango caught up with the Minister on the side-lines of the inaugural Harare Indaba held in Johannesburg to give more clarity on the new mining rules and more.</p>


Zimbabwe’s mines minister clarifies new mining rules

<p class="first-p_2htdt">Cyprus-based Karo Resources will invest $4.2 billion to develop a platinum mine producing 1.4 million ounces of platinum group metals annually by 2023, Zimbabwe Mines Minister Winston Chitando said on Thursday.</p>
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<p class="">Zimbabwe is again attracting investments into the mining sector after foreign investor confidence dipped during the rule of former president Robert Mugabe, who was forced to resign in November following a defacto army coup.</p>
<p class="">New President Emmerson Mnangagwa has promised to open up investment opportunities to foreigners and change some rules, such as the empowerment law for the mining sector.</p>
<p class="">Work on the new project, to be located in the Mhondoro-Ngezi platinum belt west of the capital Harare, is expected to start in July, Zimbabwe Mines Minister Winston Chitando said.</p>
<p class="">“This is the largest investment structure in the country’s mining industry in Zimbabwe. The landscape of Zimbabwe’s mining industry will never be the same,” Chitando said during the signing ceremony with Karo Resources executives.</p>
<p class="">Chitando said Karo Resources was expected to be fully compliant with the empowerment law from the start by giving up majority ownership in the project. He did not give more details.</p>
<p class="">The government said on Monday it had changed its empowerment law to limit majority ownership by state entities to only diamond and platinum mines and not the entire mining sector as in previous legislation.</p>
<p class="">The platinum project is expected to directly employ 15,000 people when fully implemented, Karo Resources head Loucas Pourolis said.</p>
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Zimbabwe signs $4.2 billion mining investment deal with Karo Resources

<p>Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Monday companies and individuals had returned $591 million in funds illegally stashed abroad after a 90-day amnesty to bring back the money expired last week but $827 million was still outstanding.</p>
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<p class="">Mnangagwa announced a three-month amnesty for the return of public funds illegally stashed abroad when he was sworn-in in November after a defacto military coup forced Robert Mugabe to resign.</p>
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Mnangagwa says Zimbabweans return $591 million stashed abroad

<p>Zimbabwe’s first presidential and parliamentary elections since the end of former strongman Robert Mugabe’s long rule will take place in July, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Saturday.</p>
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<p class="">The polls will be the first major test of the new leader, who took power in November after a de facto military coup forced the 94-year-old Mugabe to resign.</p>
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<p class="">“As a nation, party and government, we are looking forward to very peaceful, transparent and harmonised elections in July this year,” Mnangagwa told reporters after a meeting with South Africans President Cyril Ramaphosa on Saturday night.</p>
<p class="">Mnangagwa, 75, said the elections would be free of the violence that gripped previous polls and which was one of the reasons for strained relations between Zimbabwe and the West.</p>
<p class="">“I have already invited all political parties in Zimbabwe to a roundtable where we all commit ourselves to non-violence,” he added.</p>
<p class="">Mnanaggwa will have to announce a date in an official notice. He has said he would invite Western observers, who had been banned under Mugabe’s rule.</p>
<p class="">The state-owned weekly Sunday Mail said a European Union pre-election team was expectewd in Harare on Monday.</p>
<p class="">The EU head of mission in Zimbabwe, Phillipe Van Damme, told the paper it would meet the president, political party leaders, and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission.</p>
<p class="">Mugabe, in his first comments since he stepped down, said last week that Mnangagwa’s rule was “illegitimate” and a “disgrace”.</p>
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Zimbabwe to hold elections in July: President

<p>Zimbabwe’s former leader Robert Mugabe said he never thought new President Emmerson Mnangagwa would turn against him and denounced Mnangagwa’s move to oust him last year as a coup, in an interview broadcast on Thursday.</p>
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<p class="">Mugabe, 94, ruled Zimbabwe from independence in 1980 until he stepped down under pressure from Mnangagwa’s allies in the army in November.</p>
<p class="">Viewed by some as a liberation hero, others remember Mugabe for turning a promising country into an economic basket case and international pariah.</p>
<p class="">Mnangagwa, deputy president under Mugabe, has promised to open up Zimbabwe to foreign investment and mend ties with the West since assuming power.</p>
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<p class="">“I never thought he whom I had nurtured and brought into government and whose life I worked so hard in prison to save as he was threatened with hanging, that one day he would be the man who would turn against me,” Mugabe said in the interview with South African state broadcaster SABC from Harare.</p>
<p class="">Mnangagwa was convicted of sabotage under white minority rule and sentenced to death. But he was spared the noose because it was deemed that he was a minor when he had committed the crime.</p>
<p class="">Mugabe said he was ousted in a “military takeover” and that Mnangagwa had assumed the presidency illegally.</p>
<p class="">“I don’t hate Emmerson, I brought him into government. But he must be proper, he is improper where he is. Illegal,” Mugabe said. “We must undo this disgrace, which we have imposed on ourselves. We don’t deserve it.”</p>
<p class="">Since his fall from power, Mugabe has stayed at his Harare mansion with his wife Grace. His ousting was the culmination of a power struggle between Mnangagwa and Grace Mugabe, who was being groomed by her husband as his potential successor.</p>
<p class="">Mugabe was granted immunity from prosecution and assured that his safety will be protected in his home country under a deal that led to his resignation.</p>
<p class="">Mugabe quit as parliament began a process to impeach him, triggering wild celebrations in the streets.</p>
<p class="">Zimbabwe was once one of Africa’s most promising economies but suffered decades of decline as Mugabe pursued policies that included the violent seizure of white-owned commercial farms and money-printing that led to hyperinflation.</p>
<p class="">Mnangagwa has said Zimbabwe still wants to end discrimination between black and white farmers but will seek new ways to compensate those who have lost their properties. Former colonial ruler Britain said last month that Harare should press on with transparent and fair land reform.</p>
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Zimbabwe’s Mugabe says never thought Mnangagwa would turn against him

<p class="MegaArticleBody_first-p_2htdt">Zimbabwe’s state-owned electricity distributor has given businesses, including mines and large-scale farms, six months to clear their bills or risk being cut off and face litigation, the company said on Monday.</p>
<p class="">The Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDS) is owed more than $1 billion by electricity users, including domestic households, farmers, industries and mining companies.</p>
<p class="">ZETDC said in a public notice that businesses had six months to clear their bills because it required the money to pay for electricity imports to supplement local generation.</p>
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<p class="">Zimbabwe, which has had stable electricity supplies for more than a year, currently produces 938 megawatts and imports up to 450 megawatts from South Africa and Mozambique.</p>
<p class="">Isaac Kwesu, the chief executive of the Chamber of Mines, said although some members had accrued huge bills over the years, they had made plans to clear the arrears with ZETDC.</p>
<p class="">“I know members will make all efforts to honor their dues because there is no one who can afford to have a mine closed,” Kwesu said, but declined to name members with arrears.</p>
<p class="">Zimbabwe this month expects to commission two new generating units at the country’s biggest hydro power plant, Kariba, which will add 300 megawatts of capacity.</p>
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Zimbabwe gives mines, farmers six months to clear electricity bills

<p>A retired Zimbabwean general and acolyte of ex-president Robert Mugabe has formed a political party to challenge President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the polls later this year, the new grouping said on Monday.</p>
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<p class="">Mugabe, 94, was forced to step down last November following a de facto military coup. Sources close to the former leader say he is bitter over his departure after 37 years in office and has given his support to the New Patriotic Front (NFP) party.</p>
<p class="">Ambrose Mutinhiri, a veteran of Zimbabwe’s 1970s independence war, quit the ruling ZANU-PF party and gave up his parliamentary seat last Friday, then met Mugabe on Sunday to brief him about the latest developments, an NPF statement said.</p>
<p class="">The NPF said it was formed by ZANU-PF members and Zimbabweans “outraged by the unconstitutional and humiliating manner in which President Mugabe was criminally ousted from leadership &#8230; by real criminals who have shamefully damaged Zimbabwe’s fledgling democracy”.</p>
<p class="">Mugabe’s policies are blamed by many for the decline of Zimbabwe from breadbasket to basket case, with unemployment above 80 percent, dilapidated public infrastructure and severe shortages of hard currency that spawned hyper-inflation.</p>
<p class="">Mnangagwa said in January Zimbabwe would hold transparent elections by July and he would respect the result if the opposition won &#8211; a pledge crucial to unlocking urgently needed financial assistance and repairing relations with Western powers and international financial institutions.</p>
<p class="">Still, the NPF said it would soon challenge the legality of Mnangagwa’s government at the Constitutional Court.</p>
<p class="">The High Court ruled in November that the military intervention was lawful, as it halted a bid by people in his entourage to take over his duties, and African and Western countries have since accepted Mnangagwa’s presidency.</p>
<p class="">Mutinhiri, an ethnic Zezuru like Mugabe, has no known political base. He joins the ranks of other opposition political parties like the Movement for Democratic Change, whose founding president Morgan Tsvangirai died from cancer last month, and Joice Mujuru, a former Mugabe deputy.</p>
<p class="">The state-owned Herald newspaper, which reflects government thinking, asserted that Mutinhiri was a stalking horse for Mugabe, his wife Grace and the vanquished ZANU-PF G40 group that had opposed Mnangagwa’s political rise.</p>
<p class="">It was Grace’s tilt at power that triggered the military intervention in November.</p>
<p class="">Quoting an unnamed government source, the Herald said Mugabe and his wife were also anxious about their investments, including a dairy firm and several farms.</p>
<p class="">“Essentially, what it means is it’s the former president who is trying to stage a ‘second coming’ behind the person of the dutiful and beholden Ambrose Mutinhiri,” the source was quoted by the Herald as saying.</p>
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Mugabe acolyte forms new Zimbabwe political party to challenge Mnangagwa

<p class="MegaArticleBody_first-p_2htdt">Zimbabwe must offer foreign miners a consistent legal framework, the right to keep a controlling stake in operations and a greater share of profits to encourage investment, the head of Anglo American Platinum (<span id="“symbol_AMSJ.J_0”"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=AMSJ.J">AMSJ.J</a></span>) said.</p>
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<p class="">The country, home to the world’s second largest reserves of platinum after South Africa, is pinning hopes on a recovery in its mining industry after a coup that pushed out veteran leader Robert Mugabe, whose rule saw the economy plunged into chaos.</p>
<p class="">But decades of laws that deterred investors with tough terms and frequent changes, low global platinum prices and a crumbling economy have left Zimbabwe’s mineral wealth largely untapped.</p>
<p class="">“We are not investing in any material growth,” Chief Executive Chris Griffith told Reuters, adding that Amplats was considering investing in a small process to optimize operations, a process known as “debottlenecking”.</p>
<p class="">“But that is not betting the farm on Zimbabwe yet,” he said, adding that terms now on offer and an uncertain global outlook for platinum meant the world’s top producer of the metal had no immediate plans for major investment in Zimbabwe.</p>
<p class="">The southern African nation requires platinum and diamond companies to hand over at least 51 percent of operations to the government, a rule that had extended to the rest of the industry until it was changed last year for other metals.</p>
<p class="">Amplats, which owns the Unki platinum mine and is building a $62 million smelter, would be among major multinationals that the new mining minister, Winston Chitando, would hope to woo as the nation prepares for elections in six months.</p>
<p class="">But platinum prices are hurting those recovery prospects.</p>
<p class="">The industrial precious metal is down more than 50 percent from a record high of nearly $2,300 per ounce in 2008 due to a supply glut and shrinking demand from autocatalyst makers and jewelry buyers in China, the world’s biggest consumer.</p>
<p class=""><strong>“CHOPPING AND CHANGING”</strong></p>
<p class="">Griffith met Zimbabwe’s Chitando to discuss issues plaguing the industry, including laws and rules on processing that he said had changed three times since work on Amplats’ new smelter started.</p>
<p class="">The Amplats CEO told the minister that constant changes made taking any investment decision difficult.</p>
<p class="">“I said (to Chitando): ‘You think I will bring half a billion dollars to Zimbabwe when you guys keep chopping and changing the rules? There is no way I will do that.&#8217;”</p>
<p class="">Unki, the smallest of three platinum mines in Zimbabwe, is Amplats’ only operation outside South Africa.</p>
<p class="">The smelter under construction will produce a matte product that will be sent to the company’s refinery in South Africa.</p>
<p class="">As well as concerns about not keeping a controlling stake, miners were concerned that companies were only allowed to retain 20 percent of their foreign earnings, Griffith said.</p>
<p class="">Following years of cost cuts and asset sales, Amplats paid its first dividend in seven years last week.</p>
<p class="">“The market is improving all the time so as we get to that position one of the things that will be a key consideration is: does the market want the extra ounces?” he said.</p>
<p class="">Zimbabwe will impose a 15 percent penalty tax from Jan. 1, 2019 on exports of platinum producers which do not build refining facilities in the country, Chitando told a mining conference on Wednesday.</p>
<p class="">Impala Platinum (<span id="“symbol_IMPJ.J_1”"><a href="https://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/overview?symbol=IMPJ.J">IMPJ.J</a></span>), Zimbabwe’s largest platinum producer, said last year “neither the smelter nor the export levy is affordable” and could lead to the closure of its Mimosa mine.</p>
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Amplats CEO seeks friendlier Zimbabwe mining laws to lift investment

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<p>The 5th Zimbabwe Financial Markets Indaba is currently underway in Johannesburg today. The summit hopes to attract increased investments into the country to prop up its ailing economy.</p>


When is Zimbabwe getting its own currency?

<p class="MegaArticleBody_first-p_2htdt">Zimbabwe aims to supply 10 percent of the world’s lithium and could reach 20 percent, the mines minister from Africa’s top producer of the alkali metal used in batteries for electric vehicles said on Wednesday.</p>
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<p class="">“We believe we have the potential to actually account for 20 percent of global demand when all known lithium resources are being exploited,” Winston Chitando told a mining investment conference in the capital, Harare.</p>
<p class="">Zimbabwe is a top 10 of lithium producer but currently produces only a fraction of the worldwide total.</p>
<p class="">Prices for lithium have more than doubled in the past two years on forecasts for massive demand from the electric vehicle industry. That has sparked work on a flurry of new mines and expansion plans for existing ones.</p>
<p class="">Zimbabwe, where investor sentiment has been lifted by the ousting last year of former president Robert Mugabe after almost four decades in power, is keen to attract fresh capital to its mining sector and is pushing lithium as a major draw.</p>
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Zimbabwe says has potential to meet 20% of global lithium demand

<p class="MegaArticleBody_first-p_2htdt">MUTARE, Zimbabwe (Thomson Reuters Foundation) &#8211; As dark clouds began to build on the horizon, Tarisai Nyakunu Zimunya, a single mother-of-three, looked worried. The fragile structure she calls home would struggle to withstand a drizzle, let alone a storm.</p>
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<p class="">Zimunya is one of thousands of people living in expanding illegal settlements in the eastern city of Mutare, one of Zimbabwe’s largest, with a population recorded in the 2012 census of about 187,000.</p>
<p class="">Like her, many live in squalid conditions.</p>
<p class="">“With the rainy season coming, it is going to be difficult for me and my family. I cannot afford to pay rent for a better house, so I have no option but to live (here),” Zimunya said.</p>
<p class="">The daily quest for clean water and firewood is an unceasing nightmare for the residents of Mutare’s slums.</p>
<p class="">“We get water from a deep well a few kilometres away,” the 37-year-old said. “The water is not all that clean, but we have no choice.”</p>
<p class="">And without electricity &#8211; and gas stoves unaffordable &#8211; the women must head to the nearby mountains to forage for firewood. It adds hours to their working day.</p>
<p class="">“But the wood is becoming scarce and we are now travelling long distances to get it. It’s not safe, but that is the only way for us to survive,” said Zimunya, who ekes a living by selling vegetables to support her children, who range from three- to nine-years-old.</p>
<h3>NATIONAL CRISIS</h3>
<p class="">Zimunya’s story is repeated across Zimbabwe, which remains in the grip of a deep economic crisis. Unemployment is above 80 percent; as a result, illegal settlements are growing in every major city, said the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions.</p>
<p class="">But those settlements lack running water, sewerage, paved roads and electricity. Health experts fear when the rainy season comes in November they will become havens for disease.</p>
<p class="">World Bank figures show around one-third of Zimbabwe’s 16 million people live in urban areas, and that its urban population is growing about 2 percent annually.</p>
<p class="">Statistics from the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals database from 2014 show that one in four of the country’s urban residents, or about 1.25 million people, live in slums. Experts said that figure is likely higher.</p>
<p class="">It is women like Zimunya who bear the brunt of the burden as they are forced to fetch water from tainted sources, gather firewood for cooking, and try to dispose of household waste.</p>
<p class="">And their position is unlikely to improve soon. The government’s figures show a housing shortfall of over 1.3 million units, with the capital Harare needing 500,000 homes.</p>
<p class="">In the decades that former president Robert Mugabe was in power, government spending ballooned &#8211; however, more 90 percent of the budget went on civil servant salaries, which left little for investment needed to boost growth or for social spending. [nL8N1O74NF]</p>
<p class="">When he presented the budget in December, Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa admitted many people had spent years waiting for affordable accommodation, and said the government must prioritise spending on housing.</p>
<p class="">Chinamasa, who acknowledged housing was “a basic human right”, allocated $182 million to support an array of strategies to improve housing.</p>
<p class="">He said it would work with housing cooperatives, and had developed financing strategies with the Infrastructure Development Bank of Zimbabwe and the Urban Development Corporation to provide low-cost serviced land for development.</p>
<p class="">Though housing experts welcomed the pledge, they said much more was needed, particularly in addressing accusations of corruption in the housing sector.</p>
<p class="">A Mutare-based housing expert, David Mutambirwa, said new slum settlements had mushroomed in the city since 2014. He said he feared the new housing facility would benefit only the political elite, not the deserving poor.</p>
<p class="">“Corruption in land-allocation on both urban and farm allocation continues to benefit the political elite,” said Mutambirwa, who is also the director of the Mutare Residents and Ratepayers Association.</p>
<p class="">Mutambirwa has long lobbied the city to provide cheap and affordable housing, and has worked closely with Mutare’s homeless people and the city council’s housing department.</p>
<p class="">“The political elite control everything from land-allocation, business, commerce and policies in the country to the detriment of the poor and marginalised,” he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.</p>
<p class="">And, he said, the amount of money allocated for housing was insufficient to address Zimbabwe’s huge housing shortfall.</p>
<p class="">“This clearly shows that there is no political will to address the housing shortage by the government,” he said.</p>
<h3>LONG ROAD</h3>
<p class="">Difficult though the situation for slumdwellers is, it was worse in 2005 when, during winter, the government launched Operation Murambatsvina, which meant ‘Drive out the filth’.</p>
<p class="">It destroyed tens of thousands of illegal homes in urban areas, and left over 700,000 people homeless, according to the United Nations.</p>
<p class="">The government’s actions &#8211; which were roundly condemned by rights groups &#8211; pushed many people back to rural areas.</p>
<p class="">But in the intervening years, with little work and few opportunities, people have been returning to the cities. However those like Zimunya and her children who live in Mutare’s slums look unlikely to get much help from city hall.</p>
<p class="">The mayor, Tatenda Nhamarare, said the city was working hard to alleviate its housing problem, including by building roads and sewerage facilities “in high- and low-(density) residential areas” prior to house-building.</p>
<p class="">“And private land developers are also helping to provide decent accommodation to the people,” Nhamarare said.</p>
<p class="">However he was quick to say the city would not tolerate illegal settlers.</p>
<p class="">“We cannot do anything for them (illegal settlers) &#8211; they must vacate the areas they are occupying,” he said.</p>
<p class="">Associations that represent Mutare residents said many homeless people could not afford the residential stands on offer.</p>
<p class="">Human rights lawyer Passmore Nyakureba said that ran contrary to the obligation by local and national government to supply housing to citizens &#8211; either by providing housing or by ensuring access to land for development at low cost.</p>
<p class="">“But, as you know, our government has really done very little in this area as it has alienated its primary obligation through either the commercialization or politicization of the right to access to both urban and rural land,” Nyakureba said.</p>
<p class="">He said given the government’s approach, the only option was to keep urging it to meet its responsibilities to provide land for its citizens.</p>
<p class="">“On its own this government will not do anything towards fulfilling any of the rights of the people of Zimbabwe unless there is political gain to it,” he said.</p>
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Zimbabwe’s slums grow as hard-up residents seek cheaper housing

<p><em>Mohamed M Diatta | Sciences Po – USPC</em></p>
<p>At a time where Africa has seen a few long-standing leaders exit, the issue of change in power is occupying minds of citizens as well as those in leadership positions.</p>
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<p>In spite of their varied repertoire of tactics to remain in power, no one is immune to the wave of change in leadership that has led many African presidents to lose their coveted top job.</p>
<p>Whether through elections, succession battles, coups or end of terms in office it has become a question of when and how they will exit. That’s if one is not too concerned with what comes afterwards. Though it is too early to tell whether meaningful changes can be expected, cases such as Zimbabwe suggest that its citizens can envisage more of the same.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, a review of developments in 2017 shows that it was a fruitful year for those advocating change. Examples include the Gambia where Adama Barrow came in as a promising new leader. Angola’s Joao Manuel Lourenço rose to power and immediately replaced some top public servants, raising hopes that he might champion good governance, although there hasn’t been an overhaul of the system.</p>
<p>In any case, the arrival of a ‘new’ leader in power always brings optimism for change and constitutes an opportunity for new beginnings.</p>
<h2>The big changes of 2017</h2>
<p>In the Gambia Yahya Abdul-Aziz Jammeh decided to hang onto power following his electoral defeat to Adama Barrow.</p>
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<p>After nearly four decades in power Angola’s Jose Eduardo Dos Santos did not seek reelection. But his ruling Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) retained power after winning the August presidential election. Dos Santos was succeeded by Joao Manuel Goncalves Lourenço, his former Minister of Defense.A nuisance to his Senegalese neighbour and an embarrassment to his peers in the subregional body, he was eventually pushed out by the Economic Community of West African States, ending his 22-year rule. He has since been in exile in Equatorial Guinea.</p>
<p>Zimbabwe provided the finale to an eventful year when, in a battle for succession, Robert Mugabe was forced out by a faction of his ZANU-PF with the help the Zimbabwean Defense Forces. Emmerson Mnangagwa, his long-time ally, and vice-president, took over the country. Mnangagwa has announced that elections this year will be ‘free and fair’. He is expected to retain power and his ZANU-PF to keep control of the national assembly.</p>
<h2>Different fortunes</h2>
<p>Rwanda, Kenya and Liberia all presented tales of different presidential fortunes.</p>
<p>After the December 2015 constitutional amendment allowing Paul Kagame to run for a third term and potentially remain in power until 2034, he was, without a surprise, reelected in august 2017 with almost 99 % of the votes. Kagame, touted by many as the providential leader who has stabilised and redressed a country emerging from genocide, is also criticised for muzzling all forms of opposition and restricting civil liberties.</p>
<p>In Kenya, Chris Msando, head of information, communication and technology for the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission, was tortured and murdered a week before the presidential election. Following the august 8th polls, the opposition coalition known as NASA and led by Raila Ondinga, contested the reelection of incumbent Uhuru Kenyatta. Despite international observers (including the African Union) finding no major issues with the polls, the Kenyan Supreme Court annulled the results and called for a new election in October.</p>
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<p>Kenya has since sunk into a political and institutional crisis, aggravated by the recent inauguration of Odinga as the ‘peoples president’.Uhuru Kenyatta was eventually reelected president in October, after NASA’s refusal to take part in the election without addressing the key issues raised about the electoral commission.</p>
<p>Africa’s presidential electoral year ended in Liberia, on 28 December, with the passing of the baton between the ruling-party’s candidate Joseph Nyumah Bokai and Georges Oppong Weah. The former soccer star turned politician and senator, won in the second round with more than 60% of the votes taking over from Ellen Johnson Sirleaf’s 12 year rule. He will have to redress the resource-rich but yet poor nation, in the wake of a debilitating Ebola outbreak.</p>
<h2>Lessons to take into 2018</h2>
<p>In the three emblematic cases of ‘handover’ – Angola, Zimbabwe and The Gambia – it’s difficult to say whether the democratic deficit is less serious today. But if ZANU-PF and the MPLA don’t renew themselves, systems that don’t have a stellar record in the rule of law and good governance departments could easily be perpetuated.</p>
<p>Gambians, for their part, can hope that the coming to power of a novice in politics will bring them a better life.</p>
<p>Ensuring democratic and good governance, free and fair elections, and peaceful transitions to power are no longer optional.</p>
<p>Stability in several countries will indubitably be jeopardised in 2018 if some governments do not deliver free and fair elections. Similarly, undertaking constitutional changes that contradict the rule of law, the separation of powers and don’t uphold political agreements, will further entrench instability. From this point of view, Africa’s regional organisations will have to manage the post-electoral crises from previous years – including Kenya – and try and prevent those on the horizon this year.</p>
<p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="https://counter.theconversation.com/content/91600/count.gif?distributor=republish-lightbox-basic" alt="The Conversation" width="1" height="1" />The African Union must, more than ever, have all its member states sing to the tune of democracy. This can be facilitated by a reform of the organisation. But this, in turn, hinges on the political will of those who will have to endorse the necessary changes. Unfortunately, they remain, for the moment, the guardians of the old order.</p>
<p><em>This article was originally published on The Conversation. </em></p>


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