{"id":218176,"date":"2025-12-26T22:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-lithium-dispute-sparks-corruption-allegations-in-mutoko\/"},"modified":"2025-12-26T22:39:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T20:39:15","slug":"zimbabwe-lithium-dispute-sparks-corruption-allegations-in-mutoko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-lithium-dispute-sparks-corruption-allegations-in-mutoko\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Lithium Dispute Sparks Corruption Allegations in Mutoko"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The country&#8217;s booming lithium sector has been rocked by fresh allegations of corruption with mining firm Pulserate Lithium accused of using political influence and questionable court processes to take over lithium-rich claims in Mutoko.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">At the centre of the dispute are mining claims in the Makosa area long held by Barrington Resources, which alleges that Pulserate unlawfully displaced it after failing to buy the ground through negotiations in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">A Mutoko resident has formally petitioned the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512220081.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 country&#8217;s booming lithium sector has been rocked by fresh allegations of corruption with mining firm Pulserate Lithium accused of using political influence and questionable court processes to take over lithium-rich claims in Mutoko. At the centre of the dispute are mining claims in the Makosa area long held by Barrington Resources, which alleges that [&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":[258,256,8577,4723,9424,43979,51057,257,254,9617,4686,421],"class_list":["post-218176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allegations","tag-corruption","tag-dispute","tag-lithium","tag-mutoko","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sparks","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218176","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=218176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218176\/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=218176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}