{"id":182394,"date":"2024-10-12T12:13:29","date_gmt":"2024-10-12T10:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-top-african-lithium-producer-zimbabwe-plans-incentives-to-encourage-mineral-processing\/"},"modified":"2024-10-12T12:13:29","modified_gmt":"2024-10-12T10:13:29","slug":"zimbabwe-top-african-lithium-producer-zimbabwe-plans-incentives-to-encourage-mineral-processing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-top-african-lithium-producer-zimbabwe-plans-incentives-to-encourage-mineral-processing\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Top African Lithium Producer, Zimbabwe Plans Incentives to Encourage Mineral Processing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Zimbabwe will introduce incentives to encourage mining companies to process their output locally, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">&#8220;Bold decisions must be taken&#8221; to speed up the expansion of mineral beneficiation and value addition, he said at a mining conference in Bulawayo, the second largest city, on Thursday. He didn&#8217;t elaborate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The plan fits within a wider push across Africa to add value to natural resources before exporting them to reap greater economic rewards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Ghana, Africa&#8217;s biggest&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202410110383.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>Zimbabwe will introduce incentives to encourage mining companies to process their output locally, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said. &#8220;Bold decisions must be taken&#8221; to speed up the expansion of mineral beneficiation and value addition, he said at a mining conference in Bulawayo, the second largest city, on Thursday. He didn&#8217;t elaborate. The plan fits within a [&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":[258,256,4380,18929,7565,43979,6272,257,5212,16786,23900,254,7319,4686,421],"class_list":["post-182394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-encourage","tag-incentives","tag-lithium","tag-mineral","tag-news","tag-plans","tag-processing","tag-producer","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182394","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=182394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182394\/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=182394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}