{"id":8442,"date":"2012-02-29T14:43:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T12:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/zimbabwe-sick-and-tired-of-implats-delays\/"},"modified":"2012-02-29T14:43:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T12:43:24","slug":"zimbabwe-sick-and-tired-of-implats-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/zimbabwe-sick-and-tired-of-implats-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe &quot;sick and tired&quot; of Implats delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">HARARE<\/span> Feb 29 (Reuters) &#8211; A Zimbabwean minister<br \/>\nlaunched a verbal attack on Impala Platinum Chief<br \/>\nExecutive David Brown, saying on Wednesday he was &#8220;sick and<br \/>\ntired&#8221; of the mining group&#8217;s failure to comply with local black<br \/>\nownership laws.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The problem with Brown is that he talks too much.<br \/>\nWe are sick and tired of his delaying tactics,&#8221; Saviour<br \/>\nKasukuwere, the minister in charge of Zimbabwe&#8217;s black<br \/>\nempowerment drive, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Implats is the biggest foreign investor in Zimbabwe&#8217;s mining<br \/>\nsector and has become the prime target of a government drive to<br \/>\nget all outside companies to hand over majority stakes in their<br \/>\nlocal operations to black Zimbabwean investors.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Brown has been seeking talks with Harare but told Reuters he<br \/>\nwas still in South Africa, where he is dealing with a strike at<br \/>\nthe company&#8217;s Rustenburg mine that has cost it 2 billion rand<br \/>\n($265 million) in lost output.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can only engage him if he comes here to implement the<br \/>\nlaw,&#8221; Kasukuwere, a member of President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s ZANU-PF<br \/>\nparty, said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This weekend, Harare gave Implats two weeks to surrender<br \/>\n29.5 percent of its Zimplats unit to a state-run fund<br \/>\nand threatened unspecified sanctions if it did not comply.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Kasukuwere has previously threatened to cancel the mining<br \/>\nlicences of non-compliant firms.<br \/>\n ($1 = 7.5305 South African rand)\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Editing by Ed Stoddard and<br \/>\nDavid Holmes)<\/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>HARARE Feb 29 (Reuters) &#8211; A Zimbabwean minister launched a verbal attack on Impala Platinum Chief Executive David Brown, saying on Wednesday he was &#8220;sick and tired&#8221; of the mining group&#8217;s failure to comply with local black ownership laws. &#8220;The problem with Brown is that he talks too much. 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