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Goromonzi residents in land wrangle with Chinese firm
Jeffrey Moyo
Residents of Nora Valley in Goromonzi, Mashonaland East province, among them smallholder farmers who have lived in the area for 60 years, have engaged the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) in a land wrangle with…
Lithium workers unhappy with embattled Bikita Minerals salary offer
Moses Ziyambi
Bikita Minerals has conceded some ground in its long-running feud with employees over demands for better salaries, with the Chinese lithium miner offering a US100 increment to the lowest paid employees.
The workers,…
INDEPTH: Shocking deaths, freak accidents at Chinese lithium mine expose unsafe working conditions
By Mary Taruvinga
TWO employees have died in a short space of time due to unsafe working conditions at Arcadia Mine, a Chinese-run multi-million open-pit lithium mining company based in Goromonzi, 38km east of Harare, the capital, …
Coal mines put lives of Hwange villagers, livestock in peril amid deadly pollution
Skefa Tembo on his polluted crop field
Skefa Tembo appears dejected and lost as he inspects his maize field that is enveloped by a cloud of coal dust with prospects of a decent harvest vanishing for yet another season.
BURZIL DUBE…
Deka River: Matabeleland North’s river of pain
LULU BRENDA HARRIS
Deka River, a tributary of the Zambezi River, has been heavily polluted with metals, industrial pollutants released by local and foreign-owned coal mining as well as power generating companies, compromising the health of…
Gold Mafia: Uebert Angel’s PR disaster
Uebert Angel is, easily, the man of the moment, for all the wrong reasons.
He was recently outed by the Al Jazeera undercover investigative team for trying to aid gold and money laundering using his overestimated diplomatic immunity.…
Giant Masvingo lithium miner at loggerheads with workers over poor pay
MOSES ZIYAMBI
Lithium miner, Bikita Minerals in Masvingo province has been registering steep surges in production of late, but its employees see no reason to celebrate this resurgence as they say working conditions are deteriorating.…
Lethal Lithium: New curse for Zimbabwe
Tawanda Majoni
Lithium is fast becoming the new resource curse in Zimbabwe.
Government has already made it a strategic mineral considering its high-end socio-economic and national defense value.
On the African scale, Zimbabwe is…