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Zimbabwe: Will Mthuli Ncube win Cowdray Park votes amid economic implosion?

Cowdray Park is a new constituency that was formed through the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission delimitation process this year. The entry of Ncube, a past chief economist and vice president of the African Development Bank as well as former Oxford University professor, into full-time politics has elicited a heated debate. In 2018, Cowdray Park was just a ward under Luveve constituency, and the…

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“Ncube raises important questions about the experiences of queer communities, the challenges of visibility and invisibility, and the unique role film plays in exploring the body.”

Gibson Ncube’s Berlin Lecture on Queer Bodies in African Cinema: Key Takeaways

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Zimbabwe’s ‘White Gold’! Critical Minerals Law Favors China

Harare has Africa’s largest lithium reserves and Beijing is poised to benefit, despite an export ban.

— By Nosmot Gbadamosi | Foreign Policy | August 16th, 2023

A foreman looks on as an earth mover works on the slippery road at Arcadia Mine on Jan. 11, 2022 in Goromonzi, Zimbabwe. ​Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images

The world’s clean-energy transition will be impossible without African minerals—and a degree of resource nationalism from African countries is benefiting China, which has for decades invested in the African Green-Energy Market and accounts for 59 percent of the world’s lithium refining. Chinese companies run the majority of Zimbabwe’s mines and are better positioned to expand domestic processing there.

Lithium, often referred to as “White Gold,” is essential to producing Solar Panels and the Rechargeable Batteries that power electric vehicles; and in 2022, demand pushed prices up by more than 100 percent. Africa could supply a fifth of the world’s lithium needs by 2030, but to best serve citizens, African leaders are demanding that miners go beyond extraction and add value by locally processing the raw mineral.

Last December, Zimbabwe 🇿🇼, which has Africa’s Largest Lithium Reserves, imposed a ban on raw lithium ore exports, requiring companies to set up plants in the country and process ore into concentrates before export in order to boost local jobs and revenue. Those seeking to export and not process domestically would need to provide proof of exceptional circumstances and receive written permission to export raw lithium ore.

Zimbabwe’s ban, called the Base Minerals Export Control Act, will stop the country losing billions in mineral proceeds to foreign companies, officials said. Namibia 🇳🇦 has followed suit; and in 2020 around 42 percent of African nations, excluding those in North Africa, had implemented restrictions on raw exports, including the Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩, Ghana 🇬🇭, and Nigeria 🇳🇬.

Traditionally, “mining companies after extraction enjoy all the benefits [while] leaving communities in their catchment areas to bear the brunt of life-threatening dangers associated with their operations,” Edmond Kombat, research and finance director of Ghana’s 🇬🇭 Institute for Energy Security, told ESI Africa. “It is time to stop that practice.”

However, China, which controls the world’s critical minerals supply chain, is ideally placed to reap benefits in these situations, because several Chinese owned companies have recently completed processing plants in the country. Chinese-owned Companies have Spent more than $1 Billion acquiring and developing lithium projects in Zimbabwe, which in contrast has seen Very Little Western investment.

Last month, Chinese minerals giant Zhejiang Huayou Cobalt opened a $300 million lithium processing plant at its Arcadia Mine in Zimbabwe, which it bought last year from Australia-based Prospect Resources for $422 million. The plant currently has the capacity to process around 450,000 metric tons of lithium concentrate annually. Under Zimbabwean law the refined lithium can then be exported for further processing into battery-grade lithium outside Zimbabwe.

In May, another Chinese company, Chengxin Lithium Group, commissioned a lithium concentrator to produce 300,000 metric tons per year at the Sabi Star mine in eastern Zimbabwe. And China’s Sinomine Resource Group said last month it had completed a $300 million lithium plant, after it bought Bikita Minerals, one of Africa’s oldest lithium mines, for $180 million.

Zimbabwe hopes to satisfy 20 percent of the world’s total lithium demand when it fully exploits its known lithium resources. “If we continue exporting raw lithium we will go nowhere,” Deputy Mines Minister Polite Kambamura told Bloomberg last year. “We want to see lithium batteries being developed in the country.”

New rules stipulate that a 5 percent royalty rate will be payable on lithium exported, due half in cash and half in processed final products so that the country can build cash reserves it could use for government-backed borrowing.

U.S. sanctions on Zimbabwe 🇿🇼, imposed since 2001, have impacted the country’s access to borrowing and investment, leaving few options but China. Last year, Zimbabwean Finance and Economic Development Minister Mthuli Ncube claimed the country has lost more than $42 billion in revenue as a result of Western sanctions. The Zimbabwe Investment Development Agency reportedly received 160 lithium investment applications from investors based in China in the first half of 2023 compared to just five from the United States.

Even among Zimbabwe’s regional peers, U.S. companies have been left on the backfoot. Nigeria Rejected Elon Musk’s Tesla in favor of Beijing-based Ming Xin Mineral Separation to build Nigeria’s first lithium processing plant in Kaduna State, in the country’s northwest region. Nigerian officials reportedly rejected Tesla’s proposal because it did not align with the country’s new policies. “Our new mining policy demands that you add some value to raw mineral ores, including lithium, before you export,” Ayodeji Adeyemi, special assistant to Nigeria’s mines and steel development minister, told Rest of World.

For decades, African economists complained that foreign companies extracted minerals without benefit to citizens. In 2015, Zimbabwean researchers estimated the country had lost $12 billion due to illegal trade involving multinational companies in China 🇨🇳, Canada 🇨🇦, the United States 🇺🇸, and the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 —enough money to pay off Zimbabwe’s foreign debt.

Africa holds more than 40 Percent of Global Reserves of Key Minerals for batteries and hydrogen technologies. Yet it’s predicted that, by 2030, more than 80 percent of the world’s poor will live in Africa, and about 75 percent of them in resource-rich countries.

It makes sense for African Nations to step up efforts to increase quality jobs. “The United States and Europe must ensure that the partnerships they are building in Africa are mutually beneficial and non-extractive,” Theophile Pouget-Abadie and Rachel Rizzo recently wrote in Foreign Policy. “Otherwise, they will run headlong into the walls erected by an increasingly dominant Beijing.”

Washington in January signed a memorandum of understanding to help the Democratic Republic of Congo 🇨🇩 and Zambia 🇿🇲 develop an electric battery supply chain. But China is going beyond this in terms of thinking about what African nations need. Beijing, for example, with support from the United Nations 🇺🇳 Development Program, is facilitating a joint research center in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 to fast-track access to renewable energy in the country.

Experts warn that more African countries banning critical raw minerals exports will impede global decarbonization. Zimbabwe’s ban is perceived as unrealistic because the country lacks skilled workers. Some countries (Kenya 🇰🇪, Tanzania 🇹🇿, and Zambia 🇿🇲) have implemented policies requiring mining companies to train locals, according to a recent World Bank report. The report suggests national export bans alone can make countries worse off because investors simply move their business elsewhere, but that training requirements could ensure retention of investment and the creation of a skilled workforce.

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Baba Harare to release “My Testimony” EP and unveil new stage name

Renowned Zimbabwean musician, Braveman Chizvino, popularly known as Baba Harare, has announced the release of a new gospel EP titled “My Testimony.” This marks his second gospel album of the year, following the successful debut of “Repentance” in July 2024. In a surprising twist, Baba Harare will also unveil his new stage name alongside the EP’s release on October 5, 2024. For years, Baba Harare…

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Introducing: Chenge Ncube

She’s a spunky radio presenter who knows her way around the DJ booth and can play an electric guitar so good you’ll burst into tears.

Chenge is the daughter of a household name music legend in another part of the world, and she moved away from home at 19 to start her own life and career in Sarare. Now, being the child of such a person graced her with the skills to make it, and make it BIG as a music personality in town.

She occasionally records artists at the Media Studio and is said to have been part of the team that produced for the iconic Lady in Red.

When she’s not rocking out she’s either picking fights with Marie in the club

… or smugly stealing her invisible newspaper.

Honestly, she’s a busy woman.

I still haven’t figured out what her traits are but I’ll edit this to add them in later.

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In Your Dreams

In Your Dreams (Serie 2023) #DidintleKhunou #KiroshanNaidoo #JesseSuntele #AnthonyOseyemi #SelloMaakeKaNcube #KateLiquorish Mehr auf:

Serie / In deinen TräumenJahr: 2023- Genre: Abenteuer / Drama / Fantasy Hauptrollen: Didintle Khunou, Kiroshan Naidoo, Jesse Suntele, Anthony Oseyemi, Sello Maake Ka-Ncube, Kate Liquorish, Bongani Thwala, Nqobile Sipamla, Lunathi Mampofu, Mike Bola, Sonni Chidiebere, Vika Matshingana, Kefentse Mokoena, Ogadinma Nqibili, Mothusi Magano … Serienbeschreibung: Die besten Freunde Lloyd und Marcus…

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A man has been charged with the murder of a mother who was killed in front of her two children in Manchester, police said.

Obert Moyo, 45, has been charged with murdering Perseverance Ncube, who was found with serious injuries in Salford at about 2.40am on Friday.

Ms Ncube, 35, was found with a single stab injury to the chest on Dukesgate Grove in Little Hulton, Worsley, and was taken to hospital, where she died.

Moyo, of Pennington Road, Bolton, has also been charged with possession of offensive weapon.

He has been remanded into custody and is set to appear at Bolton Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

Ms Ncube’s family described her as a “loving and devoted mother who lived for her children, family and friends” in a tribute to her.

Greater Manchester Police are appealing to any motorists and residents in the area who may have captured anything that may be of relevance to the investigation on dashcam, CCTV or doorbell cameras to contact the force.

Anyone with information is asked to contact the force on 101 quoting log number 236 of November 10.

Alternatively, details can be passed on anonymously to the independent charity – Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111.

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Quotes from my science teacher

Science teacher, randomly when were ment to be talking about Sound and vibrations: and Einstein, was actually an idiot, a fool.

A lesson where we’re talking about swimming: “now..if you drown..you are actually..stupid, drowning is very hard to do.

[he came to school with another teacher, coz his car wasn’t working] me: sir what happened to your car

him, leaning in very closely:it was eaten..by a dinosaur.

Him, when me and my best friend do literally anything: uh..don’t. Thank you.

[my class always arrives like 2 minutes early to assembly] him walking very slowly: we are always so early to this, i wanna go home. me: sir.its 8 am. him: yes.

[my class was playing cards un his lesson and he said if theg solve this one question they can play. They solved it and he still taught] my classmate: Sir you cheated us!!

him: who said cheating was wrong? God? No. us: sir. its..in the bible

he then stuck is tounge out at us.

Classmate: is slavery really gone?

My science teacher: whyd did they go? Some people like to use us, but i wont get into that here

Me:…mr ncube…no. him: …so light-

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Thembinkosi Mthembu 'Dingiswayo' & Wiseman Ncube 'Zwide' say there were spiritual awakenings while shooting ‘Shaka iLembe’

Shaka ilembe was filmed in KwaZulu Natal and Gauteng. According to crew, the sets in Johannesburg took over nine months to build

Video : @podcastwithmacg