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Mix-Ansicht- Nochmal zu Zimbabwe - Rumpelstilzchen, 16.04.2002, 11:49
Nochmal zu Zimbabwe
Wir hatten doch Interessenten für Investitionen in Zimbabwe im Board.
Vielleicht kann dieser Artikel hier heilend abschrecken.
Die Goldproduktion Zimbabwes dürfte in Kürze die Null-Tonnen-Grenze erreicht haben. Von da ab ist jedoch kein weiteres Absinken der Produktion mehr zu erwarten.
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R.
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April 16 2002 at 06:37AM
Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's land grab had overflowed to the mining industry, where workers had seized the assets of a gold mine near Mberengwa, the Associated Mineworkers Union confirmed yesterday.
About 300 workers had taken control of Procter Metals in response to alleged incitements by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.
Enoch Sithole, the union's national organisational secretary, said yesterday that Procter was the only mine to be seized at present. The workers were said to have claimed the stamp mill.
The union told the Zimbabwe Standard, an independent newspaper, that the government wanted to take advantage of the problems in the gold sector to"drive out foreigners", or non-black entrepreneurs.
The Chamber of Mines Zimbabwe said it had heard no official reports.
Doug Verden, the senior executive officer at the chamber, said if the expropriation of assets proved true it was"sheer politics". He said despite equipment still being on site, the mine was effectively closed anyway.
The Zimbabwe Standard reported that Mugabe, during his February election campaign, had claimed gold producers were deliberately closing down to bring down his beleaguered government through worker revolt.
Last month Falcon Gold said it planned to close three of its gold mines and fire 300 employees in Zimbabwe. It said its profit had been cut by Zimbabwe's fixed foreign exchange rate and it had no money left to spend finding new reserves.
Mine closures by global gold producers like Australia's Aurion Gold and Canada's First Quantum have reduced the output of Zimbabwe's second-biggest export earner by a third.
Gold production in Zimbabwe had fallen 35 percent in just two years, from 27.7 tons in 1999 to 18 tons last year, said the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. The decline was expected to be extended into 2002.
Another Zimbabwean newspaper, National News, reported on Friday that ruling party Zanu-PF supporters had set up a base at Shamva Gold Mine. Verden said there were thought to be a number of these"base camps" in that area.
The newspaper said Zanu-PF supporters had"released a reign of terror" at the mine, where they were accused of victimising workers thought to be supporting the opposition Movement for Democratic Change. The report said 20 workers had been ordered to leave the mine.
The chamber said there were no indications that more mine seizures had been planned.
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