Zela urges transparency in mining

The Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) has urged stakeholders to push government and mining companies to improve transparency in revenue generated from sale of mineral resources.

Speaking at a breakfast meeting on unlocking value of State-owned enterprises in the mining sector in Harare last week, Zela senior programmes officer Nyaradzo Mutonhori said it was high time civil society organisations (CSOs) take an action-oriented approach for the implementation of constitutional provisions which call for transparency in the mining sector.

“We all know that there is a problem in terms of transparency, capacity and secrecy surrounding the mining sector and mineral resources governance, particularly in relation to mining revenues in Zimbabwe.

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