ZIMBABWE Mining Development Corporation (ZMDC) board
chairperson Peter Chimboza on Monday disclosed to Parliament that the army has
30% shareholding in the Great Dyke Investment (GDI) mining company.
Chimboza had appeared before the Temba Mliswa-led
Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines where he was grilled over ownership
of GDI.
GDI got platinum claims in 2008 which are lying idle.
Munashe Shava who is the company chief operating officer was appointed as one
of the assistants to Hwange Colliery Company administrator Bekithemba Moyo, and
MPs wanted to know if GDI was not conflicted in dealing with the Hwange
Colliery issue.
The committee also expressed concern that Shava was coming
from a company which was not performing in its platinum claims, and that the
failure will be replicated in the reconstruction of Hwange Colliery company.
“Great Dyke Investment’s shareholding structure is composed
of Afromet, a Russian company with 50% shares, and then another company Peneast
has 50% shares,” Chimboza said.
“Peneast comprises two companies, Old Stone which is owned
by the Ministry of Defence and has 30% shareholding, while the other company is
ZMDC with 20% shares to make the 50% Peneast shareholding,” he said.
Chimboza told the MPs that Foreign Affairs minister
Sibusiso Moyo and Ministry of Defence secretary Martin Rushwaya signed on
behalf of Old Stone, while ZMDC was represented by Zenzo Nsimbi. Newsday
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