Govt chucks out $2bn investor

Government has reportedly deported a German investor who had offered to inject $2 billion into a coal-mining project in Hwange, accusing him of flouting the country’s immigration laws.

Home Affairs co-minister Theresa Makone made the disclosure at the provincial launch of the medium-term investment plan document in Bulawayo yesterday.

“I had an investor who was kicked out by my own Department of Immigration who had been given a licence by the ‘One-Stop Shop’ to start mining coal in Binga.

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