The latest report by Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Defence, Home Affairs and Security Services on the security of minerals, illicit trading and mineral leakages has confirmed that delay in payments for gold by Fidelity Gold Refiners (FGR), the sole buyer of the mineral, is contributing to the current surge in looting and smuggling of the precious mineral.
SHURUGWI - Minister of Environment, Climate, Tourism and Hospitality Industry Mangaliso Ndlovu has tasked the Midlands Provincial Joint Operations Command (JOC) to monitor Chinese miners in Shurugwi. He said there are indications and allegations that the miners operating in the Boterekwa escarpment are flouting environmental laws which are resulting in severe land degradation.
After recording massive deaths at his Redwing gold mine in Penhalonga, Manicaland province, President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s ally Scott Sakupwanya on Sunday conducted a ritual ceremony to cleanse the mine as his company, Better Brands was set to resume operations.
