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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, …
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…
CIO-linked outfit takes over ahead of watershed elections
THE shadowy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-run Forever Associates Zimbabwe (Faz), which has unconstitutionally seized control of the running of the 2023 elections to retain President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zanu PF in power, has…
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…
Corruption Watch: So, who are the lithium barons?
By Tawanda Majoni
Harare- We are just yawning out of the frenzy of the Gold Mafia documentary that was produced by Al Jazeera undercover investigatives and made dramatic revelations of some people who are running the gold…
Watch: Gold Mafia – Episode 1 – The Laundry Service
Undercover reporters pose as gangsters with up to a billion dollars of black money that need to be cleaned. They gain remarkable access to members of Africa’s Gold Mafia and film closed door meetings with crime bosses. A senior African…
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…