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Zimbabwe’s Look East Policy bears fruit as Chinese investments spike
By Own Correspondent- Twenty years after formally adopting the Look East Policy in the face of economic sanctions by the West, Zimbabwe is finally reaping rewards from its strong ties with China as evidenced by the rolling out of big…
Belarus mining investor sub-contracts the Chinese
Kenneth Matimaire
THE highly publicised Belarusian investors that were awarded a special mining grant amassing vast tracts of mining land along Mutare River have been sub-contracting other firms to undertake alluvial gold mining, it has…
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…
Zacc yet to act on Gokwe corruption
Brenna Matendere
THE Anti-Corruption Trust of Southern Africa (ACT-SA) has castigated the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) as well as the Local Government ministry for failing to act on a two-month probe which revealed growing…
Sexual exploitation ruins lives of young girls from poor Chihota families
Mary Taruvinga
Chihota--At the age of 17, Chipo Moyo* is already a mother of two after enduring two failed marriages.
Chipo’s family lives in Mashonaland East’s Chihota area where deep levels of poverty have seen young girls being forced…
Neglected open pits turn into death traps amidst escalating land degradation in Warren Park
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Bikita Lithium smuggling rife
DEALERS who boast of close links with powerful Zanu PF politicians and senior employees at Bikita Minerals are making a killing by facilitating the smuggling of truckloads of lithium from Zimbabwe’s biggest lithium producer on a daily…
ZimInd takes legal action against parly over CDF
Harare- THE Zimbabwe Independent has initiated legal action to press parliament to release crucial documents of public interest detailing how legislators in Harare province utilised Constituency Development Funds (CDF) allocated between…
Failure is what happens when schools are without teachers
Lulu Brenda Harris
Binga--The poor national examination results achieved by students in Binga schools each year tell a story of an underfunded education system suffocating a hugely marginalised district.
What makes it more deplorable is the…
Cabo Delgado: Artisanal Miners, Local Communities Left High and Dry
Estacio Valoi
*This is the third and final part of an investigative series on small-scale mining in southern Africa that exposes the dishonesty of the governing Frelimo party in northern Mozambique's Cabo Delgado.
Cabo Delgado,…