{"id":205898,"date":"2025-08-30T17:51:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-urges-mining-sector-to-put-environment-before-profit\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T17:51:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T15:51:49","slug":"zimbabwe-govt-urges-mining-sector-to-put-environment-before-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-govt-urges-mining-sector-to-put-environment-before-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Govt Urges Mining Sector to Put Environment Before Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">The Government has warned that the country&#8217;s mining sector risks undermining future generations if profit continues to be prioritised over environmental sustainability.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Deputy Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Davis Marapira, said mining companies and regulators must align operations with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles if the country is to meet its Vision 2030 targets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">&#8220;There are a lot of damages done to our land, to our soils, to our&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508290030.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 has warned that the country&#8217;s mining sector risks undermining future generations if profit continues to be prioritised over environmental sustainability. Deputy Minister of Lands, Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Davis Marapira, said mining companies and regulators must align operations with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) principles if the country is to meet [&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":[258,256,8503,4357,6477,257,15693,7786,5991,254,6810,4686,421],"class_list":["post-205898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-environment","tag-govt","tag-mining","tag-news","tag-profit","tag-put","tag-sector","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urges","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205898","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=205898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205898\/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=205898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}