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Labenmon Investment fights to mine in Mutoko
Thando Khumalo
LABENMON Investments has filed an appeal at the High Court to challenge a Mutoko Magistrates Court ruling that barred the firm from conducting mining activities in Moyosvi, Chibanda, Gumbeze and Kadore villages.
The…
Chinese lithium miner back, unsettles Mutoko villagers
By Thando Khumalo
SCORES of villagers in Mutoko, a mineral-rich district about 140 kilometres east of Harare, said they were being haunted by prospects of displacement by Chinese investors searching for lithium in their ancestral…
LGBTIQ+ community still singing the blues
Pamenus Tuso
Bulawayo—Hopes of inclusion of the Lesbians, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersexual and Queer Plus (LGBTIQ+) community in different aspects of life that include electoral processes and social services delivery are fading…
Journalists, grassroots communities benefit from investigative reporting collaborations
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Zimplats, chiefs in opaque ‘new’ share ownership deal
MOSES MATENGA
On 12 October, 2011, then president Robert Mugabe officially launched the Chegutu-Mhondoro-Ngezi-Zvimba Community Share Ownership Trust.
After the launch, platinum giants, Zimplats, were set to begin the process of…
CDF fault lines exposed as MPs seek fresh mandates
AGGRESSIVE surges in annual inflation are battering Zimbabwe’s currency, frustrating legislators’ undertaking to utilise the constituency development fund (CDF) allocations on community projects that can help alleviate a myriad of crises…
Mayhem as Zanu PF linked barons use polls as cover to grab land, vending stalls in Harare
Winstone Antonio
Harare—Land barons in Harare are taking advantage of the ruling Zanu PF party’s desperation to claw its way back into urban areas by parcelling out illegal housing stands to prospective home seekers ahead of the August…
Violence prevalent in LGBTQ+ as partners suffer in silence
Pamenus Tuso
Gay, bisexual, transgender, intersexual and queer people (LGBTIQ+) have for a long time expressed concern over violations of their rights in Zimbabwe, but it has come to light that violence among intimate partners is also…
Gokwe town services rot deepens amid cars scandal
MARY Mambondiyani is tired of the poor quality of life she has to endure in the Midlands province’s sprawling town of Gokwe where service delivery is almost non-existent.
BRENNA MATENDERE
Mambondiyani, a resident of Kambasha…