The Zimbabwe Mining Development Corp (ZMDC) – the government-owned entity which manages the state’s mining assets – is at the forefront of President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s mining strategy, perhaps more so than the ministry of mines.Mnangagwa came to power in 2017 in a military coup that ended Robert Mugabe’s decades-long rule. The country’s mining sector was at the time ailing, despite its historical importance and the country’s extensive natural resources, and