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Leaders in the Southern African Development Community have agreed to ensure industrialization takes the centre in regional integration to ensure more than 270 million people benefit from its natural and mineral wealth through poverty eradication. The summit noted that despite the vast mineral and natural resources endowed in the region, …

Mining companies in Zambia collectively owe power company Zambia Electricity Supply Corporation (ZESCO) a staggering US$20 million debt in unpaid power bills, threatening the utility company’s prospects of undertaking a facelift to its equipment and the meeting energy demands to end users. Earlier this year, the Energy Regulation Board (ERB) …

There is need to devise ‘uniform’ legislations that will benefit the people in the 15-member Southern African region in collaboration with investors that export raw material at the expense of the more than 270 million populace, many who are wallowing in abject poverty, says incoming SADC chair for the council …

Countries in the 15-member Southern African Development Community (SADC),seek to review and adopt policies to accelerate economic growth having realised the untapped mineral potential. The 34th Heads of States and Government Summit which goes underway in Zimbabwe’s tourism capital, Victoria Falls from August 17-18 want to review policies to bolster …

A renewed emphasis on mechanisation in the mining industry has seen the development of the latest Shaft Boring Machine for Shaft Enlargement (SBE) by Murray & Roberts Cementation and Thyssen Schachtbau, in conjunction with Herrenknecht, both of Germany. This represents the next generation of rodless shaft enlargement machines, the so-called …