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Neglected open pits turn into death traps amidst escalating land degradation in Warren Park
https://youtu.be/P-4-Kk16LYk?si=9m-8VHBBkDUdJQRx
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,…
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…
“Shoddy” voters roll might leave thousands stranded in Cowdray Park
Cowdray Park, a sprawling high density suburb on the outskirts of Bulawayo, will be one of the closely watched constituencies when Zimbabweans head to elections on August 23 as it mirrors the most contentious dispute over the polls –…
July Moyo uses fear mongering, cash in bid to win elusive constituency on August 23
Fear pervades the peri-urban farming community of Matava in the Midlands Province’s Redcliff Constituency on the eve of Zimbabwe’s harmonised elections following a campaign allegedly anchored on coercion by one of the region’s ruling…
STUDY: Purses and Curses- Impact of Chinese Mining on Local Communities in Zimbabwe
Below is a study report published by Information for Development Trust (IDT) in June 2024. The report exposes the socio- economic and environmental and legal violations associated with Chinese mining activities in Zimbabwe.
Gukurahundi: The election dilemma for undocumented victims
The birth date irregularities were the result of a chaotic civil registration effort conducted shortly after the Gukurahundi horrors
BY MARSHALL BWANYA
LUPANE – Elections come and go, but there is a fraction of Gukurahundi…