Deadline: 10 August 2021 Time Frame for assignment: 10 days Reports to: Media and Communications Officer/Programme Officer Introduction and background Given Zimbabwe’s huge mineral resource endowment, it is undisputable that revenue mobilisation from the mining sector is key in the ongoing domestic resource mobilisation efforts. However, there are concerns of the existent gaps in the […]
Deadline: 8 August 2021 The Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association is calling for applications from suitably qualified individuals to fill the position of Media and Communications Assistant that has arisen within the organization. This role requires an energetic, tech-savvy, dedicated and detail-oriented person with the ability to manage multiple tasks while adapting to shifting priorities. Main […]
Compiled by Cosmas Sunguro-ZIDAWU 23 July 2021 Zimbabwe Diamonds and Allied Workers Union (ZIDAWU)’s existence and progress is hugely attributed to its relationship with Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA). Indeed, it has been a long-term relationship that has been growing from strength to strength. Our relationship dates to the early days of formal diamond mining […]
Compiled by Proud Nyakuni and Cosmas Sunguro. Dated 21/07/2021 Introduction 47.5 million people work in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining (ASM) in 80 countries, 30-50 % are women, therefore, “Greater economic empowerment can be enhanced by women to break the cycle of poverty”. This was said by one of the speakers at the Gender and Extractives […]
From the 14th– 16th July 2021, the Platform on Gender and Extractives convened the annual Gender and Extractives Symposium virtually which ran under the theme, “Women in leadership: advancing an equal future in the extractives sector.” The 5th edition of this multi stakeholder engagement platform was attended by women in mining, mining associations led by […]
10 July, 2021 Compiled by Cosmas Sunguro The Office of Auditor General (OAG) report of year ending 2019 came at the right time when the government of Zimbabwe is clamoring for a vision of an upper middle income economy by 2030. As always anticipated by many, it brought some juicy news, surprises and some shock […]
12 July 2021 Compiled by Byron Zamasiya, Natural Resources Economist (Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association) Human-wildlife conflict remains a significant problem in Zimbabwe among wildlife reliant communities and those that are adjacent to protected areas. Smallholder farmers are losing crops, lives are being lost while some have suffered injuries due to this hazard. Some smallholder farmers […]
Compiled by Nobuhle T Chikuni-Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association On the 5th of July 2021, the RBZ Governor shared the plans to register all ASM in Zimbabwe in an effort to formalise the miners, promote traceability and know their miners. this was part of the oral evidence he presented before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Environment, […]
09 July 2021 The Publish What You Pay Zimbabwe (PWYP) would like to applaud Caledonia Mining Corporation for its actions in pursuing a listing on the Victoria Falls Stock Exchange[1]. Caledonia Mining Cooperation is also trading on London Stock Exchange’s AIM. Caledonia was a part of the breakfast meeting held on the 31st of May […]
Compiled by Joshua Y. Machinga and Nobuhle Mabhikwa-Chikuni-ZELA Introduction Building on to the previous blog titled, ‘Towards a formalised ASM in Zim: what to consider and why’[1], this latest blog zeros in on the merits of devolution approach in influencing formalisation of the ASM sector. In 1992 gold panning along the country’s streams was legalised […]