Capitalist Mining In Zimbabwe

Occupational Safety & Health Law In Mining | Muvingi and …

The mining regulatory framework in Zimbabwe is relatively straightforward. Mineral rights are vested in the President, who primarily administers these rights through the structures and institutions under the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development. Any person above 18 years of age permanently resident in Zimbabwe or a company duly …

Diamond in Zimbabwe

Diamond production in Zimbabwe and major projects. Brought to you by. According to GlobalData, Zimbabwe is the world's seventh-largest producer of diamonds in 2022, with output down by 19.2% on 2021. Over the five years to 2021, production from Zimbabwe increased by a CAGR of 14% and is expected to rise by a CAGR of 3% …

Socialist transition in the capitalist periphery

Mining and (white-settler) agriculture provided the foreign exchange to finance import-substitution industrialization. ... The political, economic and military realities faced by Zimbabwe as a peripheral capitalist country on the frontline of South Africa are enormous and justify a slow pace of change. 58 Socialist transition in the capitalist ...

Security of Mining Rights in Zimbabwe: The Mining Lease …

It is regrettable to note that mining rights conferred to a miner by a certificate of registration of claims, mining lease, special mining lease and a special grant are all susceptible compulsory acquisition by the President of Zimbabwe generally in terms of Section 398(1) of the Mines Act as read with section 7 (1) of the Land Acquisition Act.

Charted: Lithium Production by Country (1995-2020)

The U.S. was by far the largest lithium producer until 1995, followed by Zimbabwe and Australia. From 1995 to 2010, Chile took over as the dominant producer with a lithium mining boom in the Salar de Atacama, the country's largest salt flat. Lithium production grew steadily between 1995 and 2010, up from 9,500 tonnes to 28,000 tonnes.

ZAMBIA: A CASE STUDY OF ECONOMIC REFORM AND …

economy to a liberalised capitalist economy has accompanied the political transition and caused considerable hardship among the people. The government's full-scale implementation of a Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP) has particularly hurt the poor. Because it is a "classic case" of what is happening in other parts of Africa, Zambia is

Top Ten operating mines in Zimbabwe 2018

Mining Zimbabwe, however, took time to go through the performance of various companies in a list of 10. (1) Caledonia Mining Corporation. The Matabeleland based gold miner despite it being a mid-tier gold producer has managed to outperform its peers in the mining sector. Since inception, the mining company immensely showed its …

Socialist transition in the capitalist periphery

Large-scale capitalist agriculture was maintained and supported. A small-farm development effort was increasingly targeted to 'progressive' black farmers. ... Traditional leaders and the politics of labour recruitment in Zimbabwe's platinum mining industry. The Extractive Industries and Society, Volume 6, Issue 4, 2019, pp. 1274-1281.

The Dynamics of Rural Capitalist Accumulation in Post-Land Reform Zimbabwe

By Bcm1 - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link. George T. Mudimu is a scholar-activist based in Zimbabwe. He is interested in studying the dynamics of capitalism, social reproduction, land, and rural politics. He can be followed on Twitter at @toveratm. Gregory Elich is a Korea Policy Institute board member. He is a contributor to the collection ...

The occult goes underground: Rumour, rituals, and the …

In the mining community of Mazowe, as is the case with other mining communities across Zimbabwe, we discovered occult practices are popular and are used for different purposes by various social groups. We hope that our discussion will provide a fresh understanding of women, rituals, and resource politics in the region. 2. Background …

Mining impact on communities' livelihoods: A case study …

Mining did not help some of the s, to acquire assets, even though it enhanced ability to meet their day to day needs. ... Chanakira K, Mujere J, Spiegel S (2019) Traditional leaders and the politics of labor recruitment in Zimbabwe's platinum mining industry. Extr In Soc 6: 1274-1281. [39] Kemp D, Owen R (2019) Characterizing …

The fast-track land reform and agrarian change in Zimbabwe

The website also posted Ben Radley's blogpost on the involvement of TNC-led mining in the Congo which has undermined the productivity and development of ... S., and P. Yeros. 2012. "Land Occupations and Land Reform in Zimbabwe." In Global Capitalism and the Future of Agrarian Society, edited by A. Dirlik, R. Prazniak, and A. …

Patriarchy, Capitalism, and the Colonial State in Zimbabwe

The process of economic development in the British settler colony of Southern Rhodesia (the modern nation of Zimbabwe) was dominated by the needs of European capitalists who had invested in agriculture and mining.' In recent years a functionalist bias has pervaded scholarly accounts of this process.

'From an Agro-Based to a Mineral Resources-Dependent …

Introduction. The agricultural sector is the backbone of many economies in Southern Africa and Zimbabwe is no exception. The key literature on Zimbabwe's agricultural industry shows the important role played by this sector in contributing to the economic development of the country (Mlambo and Zitsanza, Citation 2001; Sithole, …

Capitalist crisis and uneven development applied in Southern Africa

This 1913 Accumulation of Capital linkage by Luxemburg (1968: 413), between underlying capitalist laws of motion and imperialism, was the first historical-geographical-materialist analysis of how economic crises play out through North/South, capitalist/non-capitalist relations.Although there are hints of this process in the work of …

The unending curse of Zimbabwe's Marange diamonds

Diamonds were discovered in Marange, eastern Zimbabwe, in 2006, but more than a decade after formal mining started, thousands of people in the vicinity of diamond fields are living miserably, as fields have become an outpost of human rights violations, according to various reports. "Life is tough here at ARDA Transau," Donald …

Ranked: The World's Largest Lithium Producers in 2023

8. Portugal. 380. World Total. 184,680. Chile is second in rank but with more modest growth. Chilean production rose from 13,500 tonnes in 2013 to 44,000 metric tons in 2023. Contrary to Australia, the South American country extracts lithium from brine. China, which also produces lithium from brine, has been approaching Chile over the years.

Ranked: The World's Top Diamond Mining Countries, by …

Russia takes the top spot as the world's largest rough diamond producer, mining close to 42 million carats in 2022, well ahead of its peers. Carat is the unit of measurement for the physical weight of diamonds. One carat equals 0.200 grams, which means it takes over 2,265 carats to equal 1 pound. Russia's large lead over second …

Jin An | Home

Jin An Corporation was established in 2012 and is located in Zimbabwe's Midlands Province, in Gweru. Annually producing 100,000mt and grossing approximately USD$90 million a year from our ferroochrome exports, the JIN AN GROUP is the top foreign currency earner in Zimbabwe. We are the only company in Africa which can produce …

How to register a mine in Zimbabwe | Mining Index Zimbabwe

Registration fees for a prospecting licence (claim holder) for base minerals. Ordinary block – ZW$2000-00. Special block – ZW$3750-00. Precious metals – ZW$1000-00. Special grant – ZW$5000-00. Precious stones (5 years) – ZW$10000-00. Special lease – ZW$5000-00.

Artisanal Gold Mining and Farming: Livelihood Linkages and Labour

2. Background on the artisanal mining/farming nexus, research context, and methods. The upsurge of ASGM across sub-Saharan Africa involving a wide variety of 'labour intensive activities without mechanisation' (Weng et al., Citation 2015) has led to wide-ranging debates about the ways in which poverty-driven gold mining fits – or …

Land and Agrarian Reform in Zimbabwe

The Fast Track Land Reform Programme implemented during the 2000s in Zimbabwe represents the only instance of radical redistributive land reforms since the end of the Cold War. It reversed the racially-skewed agrarian structure and discriminatory land tenures inherited from colonial rule. The land reform also radicalised the state towards a …

Botswana's success is remarkable – and it's down to capitalism

Put differently, Botswana's economy grew 10 times faster than the rest of the world. The country's economy is even more impressive compared to its immediate neighbors. Between 1966 and 2018, South Africa's GDP per capita rose 32%, from $5,631 to $7,434, and Zimbabwe's just 35%, from $981 to a meagre $1,322.