{"id":2029,"date":"2013-04-27T17:54:33","date_gmt":"2013-04-27T21:54:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juniorminingnews.com\/?p=2029"},"modified":"2013-04-27T17:54:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-27T21:54:33","slug":"zimbabwe-unlikely-to-seize-mine-stakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=2029","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe &#8216;unlikely&#8217; to seize mine stakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>news24 (Reuters)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2030\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2030\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2030\" title=\"kalaa160\" src=\"http:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/kalaa160.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"213\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2030\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kalaa Mpinga<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Fears that Zimbabwe&#8217;s government will strip foreign mines of half their assets without compensation are unfounded, according to Kalaa Mpinga, chief executive of Mwana, which has gold and nickel operations there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is a lot of noise but we&#8217;re having a good conversation with the government,&#8221; Mpinga said.<\/p>\n<p>A document seen by Reuters this week showed a draft proposal by President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s party to amend its &#8220;indigenisation&#8221; law, by which foreign companies must be 51% owned by local black people, under which companies would not be compensated for their stakes.<\/p>\n<p>London AIM-listed Mwana runs Zimbabwe&#8217;s largest producing gold mine &#8212; Freda Rebecca &#8212; but Mpinga, interviewed in London, said he doubted the proposal carried weight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/Africa\/Zimbabwe\/Zimbabwe-unlikely-to-seize-mine-stakes-20130426\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Continue reading . . .<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fears that Zimbabwe&#8217;s government will strip foreign mines of half their assets without compensation are unfounded, according to Kalaa Mpinga, chief executive of Mwana, which has gold and nickel operations there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}