· All foreignowned mining companies in Zimbabwe must sell majority stakes to locals within six months, under new rules released Monday that clouded the nation's drive for foreign investment.

· Below are sentiments shared by local Zimbabwean miners on why the government should set a minimum investment threshold for foreign investors; "Small Mining Claims should indeed be preserved for SmallScale workers, but bear in mind that some smallscale claims may be part of a Larger Mineralisation occurrence, which might require significant Capital Expenditure (CAPEX) to develop .
Accordingly, a foreign investor is an investor ".domiciled outside Zimbabwe, who seeks to make, is making or has made an investment in Zimbabwe pursuant to this Act. " The words, 'who seeks to make,' reveal an intention by Parliament to extend the protection beyond established investors to also include prospective investors.
· Handle with care surge in foreign investor appetite. By. The Zimbabwe Independent. . May 7, 2021. Industry and Commerce minister Sekai Nzenza, according to a report elsewhere in this issue, has held crucial private talks with foreign investors following a surge of interest in Zimbabwe. She does not explain what has been driving the appetite.
· Foreign investors control twothirds of Zim's diamond pipes. ANALYSIS – HARARE ( Mining Index) – AT least twothirds of Zimbabwe's diamond sites are either owned, explored or being mined by foreign owned companies. While the name 'Chiadzwa' immediately comes to mind when issues of Zimbabwean diamonds are discussed, did you know ...
Also, investment promotion and facilitation by the Zimbabwe investment centre has been relatively unsuccessful in enticing foreign investors (ZimStats, 2013). In the 1990s the county recorded FDI of US950 million, however, by 2012 only US400 million was recorded (RBZ, 2014; ZimStats, 2013). The decline in FDI was reflected in the poor real economic growth rate over the period between 2000 ...
Mining plays a key role in Zimbabwe's economy, contributing 5% and 23% to the country's gross domestic (GDP) and total exports, respectively. It also generates foreign currency and supplies raw materials to some industries. As a 'robber' industry, it
· The study employs the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) approach to examine the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) in the mining sector on the Zimbabwe economy, while controlling for both nonmining FDI and domestic investment. Using data over the period 1988–2018, this research results show that foreign direct investment in the mining sector has a .
· But the Zimbabwe Mining Report Q4 2010, released by Business Monitor International (BMI) at the end of October, unequivocally calls for fundamental change, stating: "We reiterate our longheld view that there is a pressing need to negotiate with mining companies and resolve the issue of mining ownership once and for all, so foreign investors can work within a clear legal framework."
foreign investors in zimbabwe mining . Foreign mining investors responding to Zimbabwe's 'come When Robert Mugabe was forced to resign as Zimbabwe's President in November 2017 the country had been estranged from much of the Western world for more than a decade depriving it of muchneed investment and support from multilateral agencies . Foreign investors control two . Mar 05 2020By .
· Oil pipeline, railways, ports and power generation projects would also drive foreign investments. 6. Rwanda. Rwanda doesn't feature in the top five mainly because of its small market size. The country has one of the fastestgrowing economies on the continent and a sound business environment – only Mauritius has a better business climate. There's been a significant increase in foreign ...
· Zimbabwe's mining sector suffered from significant regulatory uncertainty in the past. This uncertainty included frequent changes in how indigenisation requirements were implemented. However, since entering office in December 2017, Mines and Mining Development Minister Winston Chitando has clarified indigenisation requirements and attempted to fasttrack the passage of the Mines and .