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A convoy of trucks laden with huge black granite rocks trundles along the dusty pathway as a group of villagers look on grimly. Every day more than 60 trucks take granite for export along this rugged road through Nyamakope village in the district of Mutoko, 90 miles east of Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare. The air reverberates with blasts and heavy machinery noises as the mountain above the village is slowly reduced, slab by slab. Quarrying has been happening here since the 1980s. Mutoko stone is sought after for its lustre. It is a popular material for tombstones. An extension to the...
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January 7, 2022
19:00
‘They want to remove us and take the rock’, say Zimbabweans living near Chinese-owned mines Global development
Source: classybuzz.com
December 12, 2021
12:55
Mnangagwa Says Chinese Won’t Diaplace Uzumba Villagers Without Permission TRUE or UTTER NONSENSE?
Source: zimeye.net
November 13, 2021
09:51
Will Zimbabwe be Left in the Dark after China Pulls Financing from its Coal Mines?
Source: africaneyereport.com
October 20, 2021
11:47
Chinese companies fuelling anti-China stir in SE African state of Zimbabwe
Source: indiatimes.com
October 1, 2021
10:01
Trouble for Chinese miner who told Uzumba villagers “they did not own title deeds to their land”
Source: blackmediadaily.com