Empowerment Minister Saviour Kasukuwere and Mines Minister Obert Mpofu rounded on Moyo for his ideological weaknesses...
Chikane was evidently under pressure: the Marange diamond fields are reputedly the richest in the world and Mines Minister Obert Mpofu estimates that exports from the field are worth US$1...
Mines Minister Obert Mpofu in evidence to the parliamentary Portfolio Committee suggests Canning’s figures are twice the real earnings...
In evidence to a parliamentary committee this month Mines Minister Obert Mpofu (Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front AC Vol 51 No 6) admitted that his Ministry had no diamond expertise that in his opinion everyone in the diamond business was crooked and that desperate for foreign currency there was no option but to go along with the ones who seemed least crooked...
As a result the very substantial figure of Obert Mpofu fills the economic seat...
The ZANU-PF Mines Minister Obert Mpofu is far from the sharpest knife in the cabinet but the stranglehold of the parastatal Zimbabwe Mineral and Development Corporation has been broken...
Vol 3 (AAC) No 12 |
- ZIMBABWE
- CHINA
Amid growing reports of Chinese involvement Mines Minister Obert Mpofu remains tight-lipped and parsimonious with information although it has been announced that a Chinese company the Anhui Foreign Economic Construction Company (Anjin) has a major interest in a third concession that has been granted...
Matebeleland North made a curious joint nomination of Khaya Moyo and Mines Minister Obert Mpofu a bulky lightweight whom the Mujurus had encouraged...
Nkomo who is ZANU-PF National Chairman has the nomination of the debilitated party in Bulawayo; Minister of Mines Obert Mpofu has that of Matebeleland North where he was Governor until last year; Matebeleland South has reneged on its pledge to Nkomo and has now put forward Naison Ndhlovu the Deputy Speaker of the Senate...
There are many contenders including Ambassador to South Africa Simon Khaya Moyo Mines Minister Obert Mpofu Sikhanyiso Ndlovu (in the Politburo not government) and even Kembo Mohadi (co-Minister of Home Affairs)...