{"id":195521,"date":"2025-04-06T10:50:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-06T08:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mutoko-rdc-threatens-legal-action-against-errant-mining-companies\/"},"modified":"2025-04-06T10:50:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T08:50:22","slug":"zimbabwe-mutoko-rdc-threatens-legal-action-against-errant-mining-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mutoko-rdc-threatens-legal-action-against-errant-mining-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mutoko RDC Threatens Legal Action Against Errant Mining Companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">THE Mutoko Rural District Council has vowed to take legal action against mining companies which are not remitting dues as part of efforts to step up compliance in the mining town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">This follows revelations that mining companies operating in the community are owing the local authority money running into millions of dollars in unpaid taxes. In turn, the council is failing to fund critical services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Speaking to stakeholders during the Road Rehabilitation and Other Development Projects Stakeholders&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504040197.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 Mutoko Rural District Council has vowed to take legal action against mining companies which are not remitting dues as part of efforts to step up compliance in the mining town. This follows revelations that mining companies operating in the community are owing the local authority money running into millions of dollars in unpaid taxes. [&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":[6394,258,256,9704,9708,6393,6477,51057,257,44129,254,10413,4686,421],"class_list":["post-195521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-companies","tag-errant","tag-legal","tag-mining","tag-mutoko","tag-news","tag-rdc","tag-south-africa-today","tag-threatens","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195521","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=195521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195521\/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=195521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}