Panic as job cuts threaten Zambia’s mining sector

Tanzania’s mining industry faces a dim future if the country fails to take immediate actions to stabilise its fiscal policy; it has been observed.

For years now the demand for minerals has been increasing more than ever before, which in turn has increased the demand for mineral industry professionals working in the industry to meet the growing industry.

This is the sixth part of an article on politics of reforming the mineral sector in Tanzania. In the politics of reforming the mineral sector this week we explore and trace the new challenges that emerged amidst successes and the efforts the Forth Phase Government took to overcome and continue developing the mining sector in order to become the engine for economic growth of the country.

>The mining sector is still facing legal challenges in terms of delivering more economic gains for Tanzanians, despite legal reforms undertaken so far.

Much of Zambia has been plunged into darkness by a power cut, the country's Energy Minister Dora Siliya says.

>The mining sector, along with other natural resource sectors, remains critical to African development and has been an important contributor to the continent’s growth over the last decade. In fact, it would not be an understatement to say that Africa’s mineral resources defined its relationship with the rest of the world, for at least the last few centuries, and thus recurrent references to the scramble for Africa.

>An opposition MP has advised the government to learn from Zambia which has reformed its mining fiscal regime to get more revenue from mining companies without negatively affecting the sector.

Tanzanian Mining companies migrating to the Mining Act 2010 and a Lusaka revolution

Judge Mark Bomani (Bomani Commission)

This weekend Tanzanians were informed (viaThe East African- Tanzania seals new tax deal with mining firms) of the decision reached by ministry of energy and minerals and one of the giant mining company in the country, Geita Gold Mine, that new royalty rates will be applicable. The agreement includes scrapping of the 15% provision on the unredeemed capital expenditure...

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