It has emerged that the party has also written a letter of demand to Tongaat Hulett, the country’s sole sugar milling giant.
The new Zanu (PF) provincial chairman Paradza Chakona confirmed that the party has written letters of demand to mining companies in the province so that they release the promised money to start the community share ownership scheme.
He said he wanted to change the system where mining companies were doing business without ploughing back part of their profits into the community.
He said companies who risk losing some of their shares include Renco gold mine , Bikita minerals, Murowa diamond mine and Tongaat Hulett. “If they do not release those funds then we will have no option but to force them as prescribed in the indigenisation laws of the country,” said Chakona.
He accused his predecessors of getting bribes from the said companies, saying “We have since discovered that some of our leaders were being paid huge sums of money in order to block companies from releasing the promised funding.”
“We have received the letters of demand from the ruling party and some of us have since scaled down operations following the threats. The issue is not that we are unwilling to release the funds but we do not have the money,” said an official with Renco mine.
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