Only transparent, legitimate Zim investments will be respected – MDC

Zimbabwe has the second-largest platinum resource in the world, and a host of other metals and minerals, which makes South Africa’s troubled neighbour an attractive mining destination. Some, like the world’s second-largest platinum company,...

Only transparent, legitimate Zimbabwean investments will be respected – MDC

The Johannesburg-based MDC treasurer-general, Roy Bennett, suggests that any new Zimbabwe government would need to scrutinise the mining investments that have been made to ensure that they are all able to withstand the full glare of the most...

Zim moots legislation requiring new coal mine investors to build electricity generation stations

The Zimbabwe government says it intends amending the Mines and Minerals Act to include a provision requiring investors pursuing coal-mining ventures to include parallel plans to set up thermal power plants.

Business deals struck with Mugabe’s govt will be reviewed, MDC warns

A senior official of Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) has warned that business deals struck with President Robert Mugabe’s government during the last few years will be “scrutinised and dealt with accordingly” if the party...

Condemnation as Mugabe regime gains right to 51% of foreign businesses

Not satisfied with the chaos that it has wrought on the country's agricultural sector, the Zimbabwe government has come up with a law that enables it to expropriate 51% of all foreign-owned companies in the country.