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Despite US sanctions, MMCZ seeks international suppliers for its metallurgy lab

With the support of Emmerson Mnangagwa's government, the state-owned minerals and gemstone monopoly is looking for a contractor to build a new facility. US sanctions are no deterrent. [...] (263 words)

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UN mission on sanctions rejoices Harare

The 10-day visit of the UN special rapporteur on the negative impact of sanctions has delighted the Zimbabwean presidency which sees it as a positive sign in its fight against Western sanctions. [...]

Alena Douhan, UN Human Rights Council Special Rapporteur, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

The house overlooking the Gota Dam in the Forrester Estate in Mvurwi, Zimbabwe, owned by Elisabeth and Heinrich von Pezold. © Studio Seilern Architects

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Time is nigh to settle accounts between von Pezolds and Zimbabwean regime

The European aristocratic von Pezold family seem to be on the cusp of success in their efforts to reclaim more than $200m of state compensation for agricultural land expropriated during the Mugabe era. Their success in this mission would consolidate their dominant position in Zimbabwean agriculture but also, more widely, in southern Africa. [...]

ZIMBABWE Business 23/08/2021

The von Pezolds chase Harare for dispossession compensation

On 23 July, German and Swiss national Elisabeth von Pezold and her seven children filed a case with the US Court of the District of Columbia to enforce the 2015 ICSID ruling, which sentenced Harare to pay the family over $200m. [...]

ZIMBABWE Mining 17/08/2021

Mnangagwa grants Ming Chang tax exemption despite troubled record

Amid rising tensions over Chinese mining practices in Zimbabwe, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has granted the large Chinese gold import-export company Ming Chang a long tax exemption. [...]

Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa.

SADC ZIMBABWE Diplomacy 15/04/2021

Mnangagwa's hawkish Cabo Delgado outburst catches SADC off guard

The Zimbabwean president, frustrated with SADC's position on the Cabo Delgado crisis, caught his fellow leaders off guard when he unilaterally announced that the organisation's military force would intervene in the troubled province. Mnangagwa's statement was in sharp contrast to SADC's usually prudent language. [...]

ZIMBABWE Mining 05/01/2021

Business tycoon Kuda Tagwirei's stamp is all over state's new mining behemoth

Kuvimba Mining House is the name of the new state-controlled entity created to coordinate and revamp the country's largest mines. Embodying Harare's hopes for its mining sector, all the paths heading out of the company's high-potential portfolio seem nonetheless to lead to Kuda Tagwirei, one of Mnangagwa's closest allies but a man under US sanctions. [...]

ZIMBABWE Energy Business 25/06/2020

Businessman Paradzai Chakona gets go-ahead for his Chiredzi solar plant

Despite facing prosecution over his alleged involvement in a scandal involving national telecommunications operator NetOne, Paradzai Chakona has been given the green light by the Zimbabwean regulatory authority to proceed with his solar power plant in the south-east of the country. [...]

Zimbabwean businessman Paradzai Chakona.

ZIMBABWE Mining 20/11/2018

Long-standing mines ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa out of action?

After years of service as the go-between for foreign investors visiting Zimbabwe, Christopher Mutsvangwa has bowed out of his role [...]

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