RHA Sign Off Process14 Nov 2018 11:07
Just got off the phone with company (had been trying to contact/ reach them for quite some time).
The sign off process sits with the Ministry for Industry and Commerce. The letters - including the one asking 'Another 48 hours' (reminds me of a film that) - have been coming from that Department. It's that Department that holds the shares. It's that department PREM management have been meeting. They're the ones who've been providing the assurances, the in principle agreement etc
The decision does not sit with the Minister for Mines and Minerals, and his department, remembering that recent 'positive' visit. I'm told that this minister supports PREM and is hugely supportive of Newco. We discussed briefly the value of the Newco proposal and how it'd, basically, heloing the Minister and his department, it being their job to grow the industry etc This Minister is supportive, even making positive pronouncements in media that he ought not to be. Crucially, the decision around RHA Sign Off does not sit with him. His department does not own those shares in RHA.
PREM have continued be in dialogue with, and regularly meet with, the relevant department, and are in Harare again to meet with them. They hope to return to the market in soon.
They are aware of the frustrations of shareholders. I explained that folks finally need something concrete. That Sign Off was an important step to building confidence and that there was probably a lot money waiting on the sidelines in the event we got a positive result. I impressed upon them that we needed something concrete to finally happen. Been too long. They explained things over there take far too long to happen (which we know already)
They understood frustrations around the delays, especially after assurances.
Relaying back my conversation, up to folks make up their own minds, DYOR erc