Zimbabwe: Mining Firms Must Prioritise Host Communities

editorial

Recommendations by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Indigenisation and Empowerment for the amendment of the country's indigenisation law to insert a requirement that compels mining firms to contribute at least 25 percent of pledges to Community Share Ownership Trusts to facilitate their speedy set up is spot on and should be implemented as soon as possible.

This is important given numerous reports of mining firms resisting or reneging on payment of their contributions to Community Share Ownership Trusts.

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