Rio Tinto PLC said Tuesday it is mulling ways to sell off its diamond operations, as the world's third-largest mining company tries to divest mines it says may no longer fit its growth strategy.
We encourage people to use public transport, he was quoted saying to AFP.
A Zimbabwe court judge announced that six activists who had been arrested for watching videos of the Arab Spring would not be sent to jail. Autocratic politicians there may be learning a lesson from uprisings abroad: the importance of restraint.
Zimbabwe's monthly gold production has fallen short of the targeted 1,100 kilogrammes since the start of 2012, according to figures published by the finance ministry on Wednesday, throwing into doubt a projected annual output of 13 tonnes for the year.
Donald Trump’s sons, Donald Jr. and Eric, came under fire from animal rights activists after their photographs posing with dead animals from an African hunting safari last year surfaced online.
South Africa's Impala Platinum said on Wednesday that the Zimbabwean government would have to find the money to buy the 31 percent stake it wanted in its local unit Zimplats or the stake would not be transferred.
Black economic empowerment laws call for the transfer of about 25 percent of mining equity to black South Africans
A war of words between South Africa's Impala Platinum and Zimbabwe intensified on Thursday, when the world's second-biggest platinum producer denied offering to hand over a stake in its local unit to the government.
Impala Platinum, the world's second-biggest producer, has made an irrevocable offer to hand over a 29.5 percent stake in its Zimplats unit to a state-run fund, a senior Zimbabwe minister said on Wednesday.
Six suspected leaders of the international hacking organization known as Anonymous were charged by U.S. authorities of computer crimes, dealing a major blow to the loose-knit group that has wreaked havoc on the websites of government agencies and major corporations.
Impala Platinum, the world's second-largest platinum producer, said on Wednesday that it would not exit Zimbabwe despite the demands being made by the government that it hand over majority stakes in its local operations to Zimbabweans.
A Zimbabwean minister launched a verbal attack on Impala Platinum Chief Executive David Brown, saying on Wednesday he was sick and tired of the mining group's failure to comply with local black ownership laws.
Impala Platinum, the world's second largest platinum producer, said on Friday the Zimbabwean government had rejected part of an empowerment plan submitted by its unit Zimplats.
Platinum prices shot up more than three percent Wednesday after Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd., the world's second largest platinum producer, told buyers April deliveries would be slashed in half because of a strike in South Africa.
Celebrated American war reporter Marie Covlin died in a shelling attack in Syria on Wednesday. Known for her ardent willingness to report from the front lines for Britain's Sunday Times, the 55-year-old reporter had covered conflicts in dangerous war zones. Colvin was killed when a shell attack hit a Syrian army building that had been turned into an impromptu press center in the Baba Amr area of the besieged city of Homs, Syria. Take a look at her last dispatches from Syria.
Mugabe, who turned 88 on Tuesday, shrugged off international criticism of his economic and human rights record, telling state television, At this age I can still go some distance, can't I.
Desperate attempts to get into the mind of Ukranian heavyweight boxing champions Wvladimir and Vitali Klitschko never end. This time, Dereck Chisora, the Zimbabwean-born British boxer, slapped Vitali at the fight's weigh in.
Zimbabwe reacted strongly to the European Union's decision to renew sanctions on President Robert Mugabe's government on Friday. Despite the lift on travel bans and asset freezes on 51 people connected to Mugabe's ZANU-PF party, Zimbabwean leadership is still furious that the illegal sanctions are still in place .
U.S. fast-food giant Yum Brands Inc. plans to open 130 new KFC stores in Africa this year, bringing its presence on the continent to 1,000 restaurants, the Business Day newspaper in South Africa said on Friday, citing a senior executive.
22-year-old Australian tourist Erin Langworthy survived a 365-foot fall into crocodile-infested waters at Victoria Falls Bridge after her bungee cord snapped.
In an accident captured on video, a 22-year-old Australian student named Erin Langworthy nearly plunged to her death on Dec. 31 into a river infested with crocodiles after her bungee cord broke while bungee jumping in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe has instructed bankers for Impala Platinum's local unit Zimplats to pay $28.3 million in outstanding royalty payments, which the platinum miner is disputing, state media reported on Monday.
