{"id":232152,"date":"2026-05-02T16:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-targets-gold-surge-with-nationwide-artisanal-miner-training-programme\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:00:13","slug":"zimbabwe-targets-gold-surge-with-nationwide-artisanal-miner-training-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-targets-gold-surge-with-nationwide-artisanal-miner-training-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Targets Gold Surge With Nationwide Artisanal Miner Training Programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Government will roll out a nationwide training programme for artisanal and small-scale miners as part of efforts to formalise the sector and boost gold output, Mines Minister Polite Kambamura said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Addressing a graduation ceremony for 300 artisanal miners in Chegutu, Kambamura said the initiative being piloted at Mutapa Gold Resources owned Elvington Mine would be expanded across all provinces, anchoring a shift toward safer and more productive mining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">&#8220;My ministry, working together&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202605010231.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>Government will roll out a nationwide training programme for artisanal and small-scale miners as part of efforts to formalise the sector and boost gold output, Mines Minister Polite Kambamura said on Thursday. Addressing a graduation ceremony for 300 artisanal miners in Chegutu, Kambamura said the initiative being piloted at Mutapa Gold Resources owned Elvington Mine [&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":[258,256,24870,4644,16122,8617,257,7715,254,10716,7317,4287,4686,421],"class_list":["post-232152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-artisanal","tag-gold","tag-miner","tag-nationwide","tag-news","tag-programme","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surge","tag-targets","tag-training","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232152","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=232152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232152\/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=232152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}