{"id":186570,"date":"2024-12-14T13:26:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T11:26:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-alluvial-mining-river-rehabilitation-crucial-step-for-zimbabwe\/"},"modified":"2024-12-14T13:26:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T11:26:36","slug":"zimbabwe-alluvial-mining-river-rehabilitation-crucial-step-for-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-alluvial-mining-river-rehabilitation-crucial-step-for-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Alluvial Mining, River Rehabilitation &#8211; Crucial Step for Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Innocent Mujeri \u2014 Herald Correspondent<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">In a landmark decision underscoring its commitment to environmental preservation and sustainable development, Cabinet has implemented a nationwide ban on alluvial mining, alongside initiatives to rehabilitate degraded rivers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">This decisive move, backed by Statutory Instrument 188 of 2024, acknowledges the ecological, social, and economic consequences of unchecked mining activities and offers a path to repair the damage inflicted on Zimbabwe&#8217;s natural&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202412130298.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>Innocent Mujeri \u2014 Herald Correspondent In a landmark decision underscoring its commitment to environmental preservation and sustainable development, Cabinet has implemented a nationwide ban on alluvial mining, alongside initiatives to rehabilitate degraded rivers. This decisive move, backed by Statutory Instrument 188 of 2024, acknowledges the ecological, social, and economic consequences of unchecked mining activities and [&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":[258,256,21543,7774,6477,257,5998,7263,254,5165,4686,421],"class_list":["post-186570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-alluvial","tag-crucial","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-rehabilitation","tag-river","tag-south-africa-today","tag-step","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186570","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=186570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186570\/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=186570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}