INVESTIGATIONS

Moses Matenga CHEGUTU- Traditional leaders, whose communities were meant to benefit from the Zimplats Chegutu-Mhondoro-Ngezi-Zvimba community share ownership scheme, have expressed concern over the 12-year delay by the platinum giant to…

Mary Taruvinga CHIHOTA- Some schools are violating the law by turning away pregnant girls and adolescent mothers who want to continue with their education as Zimbabwe battles to contain teen pregnancies, it has emerged. The Education…

Marshall Bwanya HARARE – Thousands of Hatcliffe residents in Harare have been living at the mercy of Zanu PF aligned land barons and unscrupulous housing cooperatives who sold them houses in irregular settlements in the aftermath of…

Winston Antonio Harare- Harare City Council is too compromised to take action against land barons behind the illegal settlements sprouting around the capital, including ecologically-sensitive areas such as wetlands, it has been…

Thandiwe Garusa The exploitation and mining of gravel by the City of Harare (CoH) in Warren Park, a high-density suburb in Harare, has led to massive environmental damage, air pollution and death due to drowning in un-reclaimed pits, an…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…