Stakeholders at the Zimbabwe Alternative Mining Indaba held in Bulawayo yesterday said the proposed mining sector reforms must include aspects enshrined in the African Mining Vision that seeks to strengthen transparency.
Source: Stakeholders raise red flag over mining pollution – NewsDay Zimbabwe September 29, 2016
BY OBEY MANAYITI
The African Mining Vision was agreed on by African Heads of State in 2009, as the continent’s response to tackling the perennial problem of having abundant mineral resources, yet its citizens were living in abject poverty, also known as the resource curse.
Claude Kabemba, the director of Southern Africa Resource Watch, said Zimbabwe should have a vision on how it wants its resources to be utilised before rushing to plunder them.
“The vision must be clearly defined before anything else. For the minerals to be extracted, you need the State and citizens to be determined on that vision. Without that vision, there is no reason to mine because there will be no capacity to implement good governance and enforce it,” he said.
BY OBEY MANAYITI
The African Mining Vision was agreed on by African Heads of State in 2009, as the continent’s response to tackling the perennial problem of having abundant mineral resources, yet its citizens were living in abject poverty, also known as the resource curse.
Claude Kabemba, the director of Southern Africa Resource Watch, said Zimbabwe should have a vision on how it wants its resources to be utilised before rushing to plunder them.
“The vision must be clearly defined before anything else. For the minerals to be extracted, you need the State and citizens to be determined on that vision. Without that vision, there is no reason to mine because there will be no capacity to implement good governance and enforce it,” he said.
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