{"id":175033,"date":"2024-06-22T07:24:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-22T05:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zim-aims-to-empower-female-miners-through-mines-and-minerals-bill\/"},"modified":"2024-06-22T07:24:07","modified_gmt":"2024-06-22T05:24:07","slug":"zimbabwe-zim-aims-to-empower-female-miners-through-mines-and-minerals-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zim-aims-to-empower-female-miners-through-mines-and-minerals-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Zim Aims to Empower Female Miners Through Mines and Minerals Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The government is pushing for the swift legislation of the Mines and Minerals Bill, which aims to provide mining title ownership and better support mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Earlier this year, female miners made an urgent plea to the government and financial institutions to accept mining titles as collateral for loans. They face significant hurdles in accessing working capital, a barrier that hinders their operations and growth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">However, the path to this solution is fraught with challenges. Women, youths, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406210411.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government is pushing for the swift legislation of the Mines and Minerals Bill, which aims to provide mining title ownership and better support mechanisms. Earlier this year, female miners made an urgent plea to the government and financial institutions to accept mining titles as collateral for loans. They face significant hurdles in accessing working [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,14488,7292,7924,4353,9587,13332,6856,257,254,6923,4686,421],"class_list":["post-175033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aims","tag-bill","tag-empower","tag-female","tag-minerals","tag-miners","tag-mines","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zim","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}