Zim govt to own 51% in all mines - paper

Zimbabwe's cabinet has agreed that the government will takeover all alluvial diamond mining in the country and own a 51 percent share in the mines extracting all other minerals, state media reported on Thursday last week.

"All new projects in the mining sector are expected to comply with the above requirements of the law," Savior Kasukuwere, Youth Development, Indigenisation and Empowerment minister was quoted by the state-owned Herald newspaper as saying.

It was not immediately clear whether the new rules would affect existing miners.

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