{"id":206542,"date":"2025-09-08T18:08:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/south-africa-the-zambian-minister-the-mysterious-businesswoman-and-illegal-mining\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T18:08:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T16:08:21","slug":"south-africa-the-zambian-minister-the-mysterious-businesswoman-and-illegal-mining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/south-africa-the-zambian-minister-the-mysterious-businesswoman-and-illegal-mining\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa: The Zambian Minister, the Mysterious Businesswoman and Illegal Mining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em> &#8220;There is a new mining order that is coming. Embrace it, but what is illegal, do not tolerate it,&#8221; says minister <\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Illegal mining is rife at Sensele Mine in Zambia.<\/li>\n<li>Many lives have been claimed. For example, over 30 people died in a mudslide in December 2023.<\/li>\n<li>Sensele Enterprises and Zambia&#8217;s government appear to lay the blame for the continuation of illegal mining at each other&#8217;s doors.<\/li>\n<li>Questions have been raised about the relationship between Minister of Commerce, Trade and Industries Chipoka&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509080221.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There is a new mining order that is coming. Embrace it, but what is illegal, do not tolerate it,&#8221; says minister Illegal mining is rife at Sensele Mine in Zambia. Many lives have been claimed. For example, over 30 people died in a mudslide in December 2023. Sensele Enterprises and Zambia&#8217;s government appear to lay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":206543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,22597,6918,6477,5941,8883,257,5069,254,881,4396],"class_list":["post-206542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-businesswoman","tag-illegal","tag-mining","tag-minister","tag-mysterious","tag-news","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambian"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206542","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=206542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}