The Zimbabwe Mining Development Corp (ZMDC) - the government-owned entity which manages the state's mining assets - is at the forefront of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's mining strategy, perhaps more so than the ministry of mines.
Mnangagwa came to power in 2017 in a military coup that ended Robert Mugabe's decades-long rule. The country's mining sector was at the time ailing, despite its historical importance and the country's extensive natural resources, and he decided to try to turn it around and
