{"id":8916,"date":"2012-03-15T03:10:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T01:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/update-1-implats-surrender-boosts-zimbabwe-zanu-pf-for-poll\/"},"modified":"2012-03-15T03:10:26","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T01:10:26","slug":"update-1-implats-surrender-boosts-zimbabwe-zanu-pf-for-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-implats-surrender-boosts-zimbabwe-zanu-pf-for-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Implats surrender boosts Zimbabwe ZANU-PF for poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mine ownership drive seen filling ZANU-PF coffers<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mugabe party was struggling to raise funds, dispense<br \/>\npatronage<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Policy polishes ZANU-PF Africanist, liberation narrative<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By MacDonald Dzirutwe and Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>HARARE\/JOHANNESBURG, March 14 (Reuters) &#8211; A platinum<br \/>\nminer&#8217;s surrender to Zimbabwean demands for it to hand a<br \/>\nmajority stake in its local unit to black investors will<br \/>\nembolden President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s ZANU-PF party to pressure<br \/>\nother foreign companies before elections expected this year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Other miners are likely be targeted to help fund the<br \/>\ncampaign of ZANU-PF, which controls the mines ministry in the<br \/>\nuneasy coalition government, although analysts say the policy<br \/>\nwill portrayed as a blow to the remnants of white colonial rule.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South African-based Impala Platinum, the world&#8217;s<br \/>\nsecond largest platinum producer and the biggest foreign<br \/>\ninvestor in the country, bowed on Tuesday to Zimbabwe&#8217;s pressure<br \/>\nto surrender a 51 percent stake in its Zimplats unit<br \/>\nfollowing months of argument.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Platinum&#8217;s spot price has been soaring and shot past<br \/>\ngold on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mugabe, who has held power since Zimbabwe won independence<br \/>\nfrom Britain in 1980, has been hit along with top ZANU-PF<br \/>\nofficials by international sanctions after being accused of<br \/>\nusing political violence to stay in power.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Mine ownership drive seen filling ZANU-PF coffers * Mugabe party was struggling to raise funds, dispense patronage * Policy polishes ZANU-PF Africanist, liberation narrative By MacDonald Dzirutwe and Ed Stoddard HARARE\/JOHANNESBURG, March 14 (Reuters) &#8211; A platinum miner&#8217;s surrender to Zimbabwean demands for it to hand a majority stake in its local unit to [&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-8916","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\/8916","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=8916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}