Death at Bikita Minerals’ lithium mine
by BERNARD CHIKETO ANOTHER worker has died at Bikita Minerals, a lithium mine in eastern Zimbabwe. Two, in fact, over the same weekend.
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Rivers of Ruin
by BERNARD CHIKETO When government declared a state of disaster last week to rehabilitate the country’s ravaged river systems, it offered a rare admission: mining, both legal and roving, has brought ecological catastrophe to seventeen major waterways.
Mine inspectors armoured with political cover
by BERNARD CHIKETO Government has told its mine inspectors that their orders to close unsafe pits will no longer be quietly reversed by well-connected operators, promising to shield them from the political meddling and intimidation that have long undercut regulation in one of Africa’s more dangerous mining jurisdictions.
The great wall of Manhize
by STAFF WRITER FOR THE elderly women of Mushenjere village, Zimbabwe’s grand industrial future is a wall. Erected by Dinson Iron and Steel Company (DISCO), it encloses all the arable land they once farmed. Four years on, they have not planted a single crop.