{"id":222952,"date":"2026-02-06T00:14:50","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-freda-rebecca-on-shaky-ground-in-botha-mine-dispute\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T00:14:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T22:14:50","slug":"zimbabwe-freda-rebecca-on-shaky-ground-in-botha-mine-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-freda-rebecca-on-shaky-ground-in-botha-mine-dispute\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Freda Rebecca On Shaky Ground in Botha Mine Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">Developments in the ongoing dispute between Freda Rebecca Gold Mine and operators at Side Electrical (Pvt) Ltd T\/A Botha Gold Mine are increasingly tilting in favour of Botha, following confirmation that an injunction relied upon by Freda was withdrawn before any determination was made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Contrary to earlier public impressions, the injunction targeting eight miners was not lodged with the High Court but with the Mining Commissioner at the Ministry of Mines and Mining Development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">It alleged that the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602050468.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>Developments in the ongoing dispute between Freda Rebecca Gold Mine and operators at Side Electrical (Pvt) Ltd T\/A Botha Gold Mine are increasingly tilting in favour of Botha, following confirmation that an injunction relied upon by Freda was withdrawn before any determination was made. Contrary to earlier public impressions, the injunction targeting eight miners was [&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":[258,256,24541,9424,53587,6914,257,33216,9037,254,4686,421],"class_list":["post-222952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botha","tag-dispute","tag-freda","tag-ground","tag-news","tag-rebecca","tag-shaky","tag-south-africa-today","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222952","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=222952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222952\/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=222952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}