{"id":6280,"date":"2019-10-31T09:13:59","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T06:13:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6280"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:39","slug":"zimbabwe-is-eyeing-a-platinum-led-revival-but-miners-see-little-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/31\/zimbabwe-is-eyeing-a-platinum-led-revival-but-miners-see-little-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Is Eyeing A Platinum-Led Revival. But Miners See Little Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Felix Njini and Antony Sguazzin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zimbabwe\u2019s\ngovernment is banking on a platinum-mining boom to help revive its collapsing\neconomy. The world\u2019s biggest platinum companies say it isn\u2019t going to happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since Emmerson Mnangagwa took over as leader of the country following a coup in late 2017, platinum projects valued at more than $8bn have been announced by Cypriot and Russian investors. Still, two decades of political and economic instability and a government with a track record of seizing privately owned assets makes many in the industry sceptical about the new ventures\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fin24.com\/Economy\/zimbabwe-is-eyeing-a-platinum-led-revival-but-miners-see-little-chance-20191031-2\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Felix Njini and Antony Sguazzin Zimbabwe\u2019s government is banking on a platinum-mining boom to help revive its collapsing economy. The world\u2019s biggest platinum companies say it isn\u2019t going to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6281,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}