Obert Moses Mpofu

Other ministries have tangential interests lMines (Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s Obert Mpofu) Transport (ZANU-PF’s Nicholas Goche) Power (Elton Mangoma from Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC faction) and Indigenisation and Empowerment (ZANU-PF’s Saviour Kasukuwere)...

Mines Minister Obert Mpofu said that as all minerals are vested in the state the ownership of claims is academic...

’ Cock-a-hoop Mines Minister Obert Mpofu enthused that the way was now clear to generate $2 billion in annual export earnings from what he called the world’s largest deposits and that diamonds would make up 50% of government revenue and more than 25% of world diamond sales...

Mines Minister Obert Mpofu jealously regards mining as his territory and is not keen on other jumbos such as Kasukuwere threatening to withdraw operating licences (AC Vol 52 No 5)...

Minister of Mines Obert Moses Mpofu who knows a milch cow when he sees one objected that mining licences were the province of his Ministry while Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono made a similar argument on behalf of financial institutions...

At a heated cabinet meeting Biti accused Obert Mpofu ZANU-PF’s Mines Minister and ZMDC Chairman Godwills Masimirembwa of misleading Mugabe...

New Reclamation a South African scrap metal company had won rights via Obert Mpofu’s Mining Ministry to Marange’s diamonds...

Officials from the Pohang Iron and Steel Company are due soon in Harare to discuss joint ventures with Mining Minister Obert Mpofu...

Obert Mpofu (Mines Minister) in Matebeleland North and Kembo Mohadi (joint Home Affairs) in Matebeleland South are in the Mnangagwa camp but neither has the strength to carry a candidate with his historic baggage...

Mugabe and his Mines Minister Obert Mpofu refuse to acknowledge criticism from the Kimberley Process watchdog about the accountability of Zimbabwe’s fast-growing diamond industry...

Zimbabwe’s Mining Minister Obert Mpofu whom one of Canadile’s arrested directors accused of soliciting bribes told the KPCS meeting that Zimbabwe would accept no conditions on the mining and marketing of its diamonds...