{"id":225111,"date":"2026-02-26T01:01:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-government-suspends-export-of-all-raw-minerals-mines-minister-says-move-is-in-national-interest\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T01:01:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T23:01:18","slug":"zimbabwe-government-suspends-export-of-all-raw-minerals-mines-minister-says-move-is-in-national-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-government-suspends-export-of-all-raw-minerals-mines-minister-says-move-is-in-national-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Government Suspends Export of All Raw Minerals, Mines Minister Says Move Is in National Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Discover morewatervehicleHealth and wellness productsGOVERNMENT has suspended the export of raw minerals including lithium concentrates, a year ahead of its 2027 plan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The suspension, announced in a circular signed by mines minister Polite Kambamura also ordered all minerals in transit to be barred from exiting Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Although it is being presented as a push towards beneficiation, wide spread leakages, primarily of lithium and gold are understood to have necessitated the move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602250540.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>Discover morewatervehicleHealth and wellness productsGOVERNMENT has suspended the export of raw minerals including lithium concentrates, a year ahead of its 2027 plan. The suspension, announced in a circular signed by mines minister Polite Kambamura also ordered all minerals in transit to be barred from exiting Zimbabwe. Although it is being presented as a push towards [&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":[258,256,10346,6427,4378,9587,6856,5941,4367,6687,257,12278,254,10452,4686,421],"class_list":["post-225111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-export","tag-government","tag-interest","tag-minerals","tag-mines","tag-minister","tag-move","tag-national","tag-news","tag-raw","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suspends","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225111","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=225111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225111\/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=225111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}