{"id":194892,"date":"2025-03-29T22:34:30","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T20:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-parliament-slams-zimbabwes-irresponsible-mining-activities\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T22:34:30","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T20:34:30","slug":"zimbabwe-parliament-slams-zimbabwes-irresponsible-mining-activities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-parliament-slams-zimbabwes-irresponsible-mining-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Parliament Slams Zimbabwe&#8217;s &#8216;Irresponsible&#8217; Mining Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">PARLIAMENT has described the majority of mining activities across the country as &#8216;irresponsible&#8217; due to the failure to adhere to basic standards that protect the environment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The remarks come on the backdrop of concerns by stakeholders who argue that although minerals-rich, Zimbabwe is not tapping into its full resource potential to alleviate poverty through value addition and other mechanisms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Over the years, environmentalists have also criticized the rate at which pollution has spiraled in a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503280529.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>PARLIAMENT has described the majority of mining activities across the country as &#8216;irresponsible&#8217; due to the failure to adhere to basic standards that protect the environment. The remarks come on the backdrop of concerns by stakeholders who argue that although minerals-rich, Zimbabwe is not tapping into its full resource potential to alleviate poverty through value [&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":[7567,258,256,23992,6477,257,2412,9757,254,4686,421,7726],"class_list":["post-194892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-activities","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-irresponsible","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-parliament","tag-slams","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194892","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=194892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194892\/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=194892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}