Some women who cannot find work in the mine eke out a living by the roadside selling ‘vim’ Yeukai Munetsi The world over, lithium is perhaps the fastest growing sector of the mining industry...
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Chivi’s enormous mineral wealth which has failed to tame poverty
Dr. Chikomwe Trymore Tagwirei Chivi has diverse mineral deposits with potential to turnaround the lives of the poverty-stricken people of the district if illegal mining is replaced by well-managed, responsible mining activities. Dr. Savory...
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Lithium miner bemoans high cost of doing business in Zimbabwe
Trymore Tagwirei Bikita Minerals has lamented policy inconsistency and the high cost of doing business in Zimbabwe, calling on government to intervene if the country’s lithium producers were to remain viable on the increasingly...
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Rights lawyer Nkomo intervenes in Mungezi communities’ struggle for water
Moses Ziyambi After several months of wrangling and finger-pointing, the Zimbabwe National Water Authority (Zinwa) is now releasing water to the downstream of Matezva Dam in Bikita after prominent human rights lawyer Harrison Nkomo...
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‘EIAs are just a tool for mining companies to get what they want’
In this podcast, Acting Chief Marozva Joseph Mudhe dismisses the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) consultative processes, which are provided for by the Environmental Management Act [Chapter 20:27], as rigged thus meaningless. The act is...
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Heavy blasting shakes neighborhoods at Bikita Minerals
Picture: a cloud of dust over Masarasara Compound after blasting at Bikita Minerals Upenyu Chaota Flying rocks from a Bikita Minerals blasting site recently caused substantial damage to two houses belonging to employees as...
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Degradation of the social fabric in Mberengwa’s lithium dystopia
…teenage pregnancies, environmental degradation in resource rich district Kudzai Chikiwa Blistering heat hits from behind a thatched hut in which she sits, making it unbearable for her baby who has been crying for a...
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Chiefs demand role in licensing of mines
…as communities call for locally-based environmental protection Obert Sithole Traditional leaders have called for the amendment of the mining law so that chiefs would have meaningful roles to play in the allocation of mine...
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New regulations to rationalise ‘chaotic’ solar energy industry
Rutendo Chirume The Zimbabwe Energy Regulatory Authority (ZERA) is coming up with a new set of regulations to curb the proliferation of substandard solar products and unprofessional conduct in the sector, EnviroPress can report....
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Authorities worried by the growth of sewage-based farming in Chiredzi
Anesushe Mamhute The practice of using sewage waste water to do gardening has become a source of worry in Chiredzi where authorities point to the possibility of grave consequences to human and environmental health....
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