INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE, CULTURAL VALUES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA A. Atia Apusigah, Ph.D. University for Development Studies Wa, Ghana Email: awingura2008@yahoo ABSTRACT The paper examines the place of indigenous knowledge and cultural values in the search for sustainable development in Africa.

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Zimbabwe is named after Great Zimbabwe, the twelfth- to fifteenth-century stone-built capital of the Rozwi Shona dynasty. The name is thought to derive from dzimba dza mabwe ("great stone houses") or dzimba waye ("esteemed houses"). Cultural and religious traditions among the Shona, Ndebele and smaller groups of Tonga, Shangaan and Venda have ...

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No 1 source of global mining news and opinion. New report lays out how the green energy transition "starts and ends with metals" but the required exponential growth in mining is …

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Zimbabwe's economy goes from bad to worse. Zimbabwe's economy continues to decline, with inflation spiralling and the new local currency losing value by the day. The IMF's recent report makes grim reading, with negative growth recorded for last year, and an expectation of effectively no growth, growing inflation and a devaluing currency ...

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Africa Intelligence. @AfricaIntell . 29/10. The sentencing of Chinese national Yunhua Lin to 14 years in prison for possession of and trafficking in rhino horn, as well as for money laundering, on 28 September in Lilongwe has fed into an investigation by the police in #Tanzania.

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Geologists say that Zimbabwe holds some of the richest mineral deposits in Africa, including platinum, diamonds, asbestos, graphite and gold. But activists and economists accuse some indigenous and emerging mining companies of not improving the welfare of local communities and leaving them worse off …

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Clarke, Foreign Companies and International Investment in Zimbabwe (Gwelo. Mambo Press, 1980), and A. Seidman and N.S. Makgetla, Outposts of Monopoly Capitalism: Southern Africa in the Changing Global Economy (Westport CT, Lawrence Hill, 1980), up-dated by annual reports of companies and by other information from the Registrar of Companies, Harare.

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The installations of the former Sominki (Société des Mines du Kivu) company have been ransacked, the shafts flooded and the jungle has invaded the crumbling sheds and offices. But exploitation of the site continues. Teams of local diggers remove lumps of stone, threaded with veins of gold from grooves hand-cut into the hillsides.

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Zimbabwean law has since 1990 provided for safety committees, health and safety representatives and health and safety supervisors at all workplaces. The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions has insisted that worker health and safety representatives must be elected by workers. Its National Campaign covers these demands: 1. Safe work.

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Collaboration is Key for Kunene Rhino Conservation. Namibia has a population of about 1 750 black rhino, making up more than a third of the world's global population! But the black rhinos of Namibia are unique, thriving even in a harsh, desert-like landscape. They have evolved to survive without water for several days and have even developed ...

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The data provides a partial window into Rautenbach's more recent business exploits - including details about the significant financial losses sustained by his company Green Fuel, a $300-million ethanol joint venture company with the Zimbabwean government that has been described as "his greatest achievement".. The files form part of the Pandora Papers, an anonymous leak of more than …

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Acid mine water a rising threat. Sheree Bega. 27 May 2021. The Klipspruit is polluted with mine water, sewage and other materials. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G) When huge volumes of contaminated mine ...

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•Day-to-day management, direction and control of the SHEQ & Site Services Departments. •Upgrade and expand existing SHEQ Management Systems with a view to future certification in terms of ISO9001:2008, BS OHSAS 18001:2007 and ISO14001.

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Zimbabwe has seen the agent of change in President Mnangagwa, he is an agent of change, not just an object of change. The new dispensation has made history, even as it evolved with it. From the ...

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Speaking during the inter-ministerial tour, the subsidiary managing director Benson Xu said his company will employ about 4 500 people at the DISCO Smelting and Mining plant. "We pursued the steel plant long back in 2013 and 2014 because we had great vision for Zimbabwe.

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Violence in the Zimbabwe mining sector is an ill of the country's patronage economy, which needs reform above and beyond the scope of this report. Nonetheless, the Mnangagwa government, mining companies, civil society and international actors can take steps to address the situation even absent root-and-branch changes. A.

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When Zimbabwean villagers from Chiadzwa were relocated to Agricultural Rural Development Authority (ARDA) Transau, a state-owned farm in Odzi, about 40km from Mutare, to pave way for diamond mining, they were promised better life by both the government and several Chinese mining companies.

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A mining accident is an accident that occurs during the process of mining minerals or metals. Thousands of miners die from mining accidents each year, especially from underground coal mining, although accidents also occur in hard rock mining.Coal mining is considered much more hazardous than hard rock mining due to flat-lying rock strata, generally incompetent rock, the presence of methane …

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For China, the establishment of banks in Nigeria presents an opportunity to further integrate itself with the financial systems of the African continent. Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari ...

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Congolese small-scale miner Elizabeth Tshimanga has made a successful living from prospecting. But like many artisanal miners in Africa, hers has been a long and tough journey marred by harassment and disputes over her legal status as a miner. The 50-year-old started working in Kasai region in central Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) at …

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Local Cameroonian miners typically use artisanal mining methods which do not damage the environment, says Kamga. Chinese companies use …

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A consignment of diamonds worth around 28 million euros ($33.4 million) was seized at the country's main airport. Petra Diamonds, the biggest listed diamond company in …

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The independence elections, 27-29 March 1980, saw two main parties competing: ZANU-PF won 57 of the then 80 common roll seats, and 63% of …

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New Zimbabwe (London) By James Muonwa. Information minister, Monica Mutsvangwa says President Emmerson Mnangagwa deserved to be reelected the country's leader in the 2023 for what she said was the ...

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Zimbabwe's power utility has announced a drastic loadshedding schedule, due to breakdowns and refurbishments at its two main power plants. Dam wall rehabilitation at Kariba will lead to 12-hour power generation cuts, at a time breakdowns at Hwange had already sharply cut output, the Zimbabwe Electricity Transmission and Distribution Company (ZETDC) said in a load-shedding …

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The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in Britain, continental Europe and the United States, in the period from between 1760 to 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, the increasing use of steam power and water power, the development of …

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Zimbabweans Left Worse Off by Local Mining Companies Squatting on Kenya's Mineral Wealth "More African countries, Kenya being a model example in East Africa, now favour a market-based economy, which is highly competitive and the most liberal economic system.

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