A view of the Domboshava area in Zimbabwe where a Chinese company wants to put a quarry mine. (Courtesy Columbus Mavhunga) China Aihua Jianye maintains the $5 million mining project would generate ...

Maguwu told The Epoch Times that some Chinese companies don't even have proper licenses to operate in Zimbabwe. And as such, these companies are leaving trails of immense environmental degradation across the country, particularly those in extractive sectors such as gold, diamond, and chrome mining.

Recent studies have suggested that Chinese companies in the African continent are posing threat to the interest of locals of Zimbabwe as there has been an increase in human rights violations by Beijing investors in the areas, endowed with natural resources, especially mining sectors.

Chinese mining companies have spread out over Mutoko district in Zimbabwe, about 200 km east of Harare, looking for granite. Picture taken February 1, 2022.

Another Chinese mining company, ... Attempts to challenge the mining companies elsewhere in Zimbabwe have had mixed results. Workers at a black granite site in Mutoko. Miners in the region speak ...

Eight Chinese-owned companies, including mining and brick-making outfits, operate in the Zvimba Rural District, according to the district's council. Quarries exist all over the region, but local people say it's the Chinese-owned businesses in particular that damage property and the environment – and in the worst cases, lead to death.

In contrast, only three families in Nyamakope have so far been moved by Jinding Mining Zimbabwe, a Chinese granite mining company based in the area, said Salison Ranjisi, an 82-year-old man, who ...

Chinese mining companies in Zimbabwe pose risk to endangered species, say authorities | World news. Chinese mining companies in Zimbabwe pose risk to endangered species, say authorities | World news ... Rhinos, giraffes, cheetahs and other endangered species deal with a new risk in Zimbabwe's Hwange countrywide park: Chinese mining corporations.

Chief Chiweshe told New Zimbabwe.com journalists that Afrochine and other mining companies acted with impunity – through their local proxy Allen Mashumba they had bulldozed gravel roads within the Mavuradonha Wilderness Area to transport their equipment and the mined ore and were even now constructing more access roads.

In early 2022, Chinese company Zhejiang Huayou acquired controlling rights to Zimbabwe's Arcadia mine, an Australian majority-owned emerging energy minerals company controlled by Prospect Resources.The US$422 million lithium deal has attracted significant media attention and mixed public sentiment.. The ensuing polarisation pulls back the veil on broader …

Several Chinese-owned mining companies in Zimbabwe are reportedly not fully providing their employees with personal protective equipment (PPE) to protect them from COVID-19, a new report has revealed. By Dumisani Nyoni In its latest COVID-19 mining sector and communities' situational report, the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) said …

With more Chinese mining companies moving into the area, the livelihoods of the villagers will greatly improve, Machinga said. In fact, Chinese companies in Zimbabwe have created numerous jobs and contributed a lot to the local economy. Across the country, they have built roads, bridges, borehole wells and schools.

Chinese Mining Company Buries Man Alive. December 6, 2021. A CHINESE owned mining company Xu Zn Investments has been dragged to court by the family of a local artisanal miner it allegedly buried alive in one of its shafts in Mutare last year. The miner, Sure Mutamba's widow, Nester Munyongani, and her four-year-old child are demanding ...

A Zimbabwean rights group on Tuesday accused Chinese-run mining companies of "rampant abuse" after two workers were shot and wounded, allegedly by their Chinese boss, after they complained ...

Zimbabwe. The Chinese mining company operating in Premier estates Zimbabawe where 10 illegal miners were allegedly buried alive last week says it has halted search operations. The halt Zn ...

A CHINESE black granite mining company operating in Mutoko has threatened to take legal action against the media for exposing its operations, after it was reported to have displaced some villagers ...

A traditional leader in Mashonaland Central province has in a rare show of bravery stood up and accused Chinese nationals in Zimbabwe of being behind massive looting of the country mineral resources.

MUTARE, Zimbabwe—Zimbabwe's rural communities are beginning to stand up to Chinese companies operating in the country, as evidenced by the recent demonstrations against plans for a mining project in the Domboshava area, north of the capital Harare. Villagers demonstrate against a Chinese company in Domboshava, Zimbabwe, on May 6, 2019.

13 ONE of Zimbabwe's largest mining companies, Kuvimba Mining House (Kuvimba) has clinched a multi-million-dollar investment deal with government for the resuscitation of the moribund Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Ziscosteel). ... In 2020, a US$1 billion deal with Chinese company Guangzhou R&FA to resuscitate Zisco collapsed after the ...

13 ONE of Zimbabwe's largest mining companies, Kuvimba Mining House (Kuvimba) has clinched a multi-million-dollar investment deal with government for the resuscitation of the moribund Zimbabwe Iron and Steel Company (Ziscosteel). Source: Kuvimba Mining House Clinches Ziscosteel Deal – The Zimbabwean

China's embassy in Zimbabwe has admonished some nongovernmental organizations for pushing a prejudiced agenda following their staged protests against alleged displacements of locals by Chinese mining companies.

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This year has seen steadily rising tensions between Chinese companies and local communities in rural Zimbabwe. These communities live in areas where Chinese firms have been expanding their granite, diamond, and other mining and construction activities. There's been considerable coverage in recent months of the escalating conflicts between local …

Rhinos, giraffes, cheetahs and other endangered species face a new threat in Zimbabwe's Hwange national park: Chinese mining companies. Zhongxin Coal Mining Group and Afrochine Smelting have ...

This is just the latest incident in a string of allegations against Chinese companies operating in the country. As per a 2016 report by the Brookings Institution, there are at least 10,000 Chinese nationals in Zimbabwe, many of whom work in the mining, telecommunications, and construction sectors.

All Chinese mining companies operating in Zimbabwe have a duty to discharge this obligation in respect of human rights. The Government of Zimbabwe, its institutions and agencies have a duty to monitor and enforce human rights compliance in the …

The shooting of two Zimbabwean workers by a Chinese boss shows the "systematic and widespread" abuse that locals face in Chinese mining operations, says the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Society (ZELA).

Chinese mining company's recklessness costs villagers. By. Newsday. -. May 23, 2016. 3. 3090. THE coming in of the Chinese mining firm, San He Zimbabwe, for the Tengenenge community in Guruve in ...

Forced labour and torture in the diamond mining industry, and other mining activities are rampant in Chinese controlled mining firms… In February, a group of local miners at a Matobo-based firm in Matabeleland South province complained of their firing from jobs by Chinese employers in a court.

Zimbabwe has okayed a Chinese coal-mining pact at its top game reserve, even as elephants die. A marabou stork stands on an elephant carcass at a watering hole inside Hwange National Park, in ...

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Updated: 02/02/2022. Mutoko, Zimbabwe —. Villagers in Zimbabwe say a Chinese mining company has told them they will have to leave their homes to make way for a granite quarry. The company denies plans to forcibly move the villagers, but a lack of transparency has many fearing they will be pushed out of their ancestral land.

Ben Kew. 7 Dec 2020 55. 3:39. Villagers in Makwa, Zimbabwe, have expressed outrage at Chinese mining companies for damaging a town …

The Chinese embassy in Harare stepped up on Monday to defend Chinese businesses, mostly in the mining sector, against accusations of environmental and social abuse made by a coalition of 27 civil society organizations (CSOs).. The embassy published a lengthy statement on Twitter that aimed to refute the allegations made by the civil society groups who …

MUTARE, Zimbabwe—Zimbabwe's rural communities are beginning to stand up to Chinese companies operating in the country, as evidenced by the recent demonstrations against plans for a mining project in the Domboshava area, north of the capital Harare. Villagers in Domboshava have been sending petitions to the government and holding protests against …

The Chinese are major shareholders in the Zimbabwe Mining and Alloy Smelting Company, known as Zimasco, one of the country's largest chrome-mining companies. They also invest heavily in gold, platinum and diamonds, giving them outsize influence over Zimbabwe's vast minerals industry.

In Zimbabwe, controversy again surrounds the awarding of a mining license to a Chinese company to extract chrome inside the Mavhuradonha Wilderness Conservan...