{"id":8303,"date":"2012-02-25T02:33:29","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T00:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/implats-part-of-zimplats-empowerment-plan-rejected\/"},"modified":"2012-02-25T02:33:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T00:33:29","slug":"implats-part-of-zimplats-empowerment-plan-rejected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/implats-part-of-zimplats-empowerment-plan-rejected\/","title":{"rendered":"Implats: part of Zimplats&#8217; empowerment plan rejected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Impala Platinum<br \/>\n, the world&#8217;s second largest platinum producer, said on<br \/>\nFriday the Zimbabwean government had rejected part of an<br \/>\n&#8220;empowerment&#8221; plan submitted by its unit Zimplats.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A heavily criticised law mandates that all foreign miners<br \/>\nsell a 51 percent stake to local Zimbabweans. Implats said the<br \/>\ngovernment had rejected a proposal that credits be given for<br \/>\nmining claims Zimplats had ceded in a 2006 deal with the<br \/>\nZimbabwean government.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Separately, Zimbabwe has also rejected a local ownership<br \/>\nplan submitted by Mimosa Holdings, a 50-50 joint venture between<br \/>\nAquarius Platinum and Implats, the two miners<br \/>\nsaid earlier on Friday, fuelling uncertainty about the future of<br \/>\nthe venture.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Ed Stoddard; Editing by Jon Herskovitz)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Feb 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Impala Platinum , the world&#8217;s second largest platinum producer, said on Friday the Zimbabwean government had rejected part of an &#8220;empowerment&#8221; plan submitted by its unit Zimplats. A heavily criticised law mandates that all foreign miners sell a 51 percent stake to local Zimbabweans. Implats said the government had rejected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-8303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}