Donald Nyarota

The Centre for Natural Resource Governance joins the rest of the world in celebrating International Women’s Day (IWD2022), Women’s month and participating in the #BreakTheBias campaign. CNRG pays tribute to women in resource-rich communities who endure systematic and systemic exclusion from natural resource governance by the state, patriarchy and capitalist structures. Premeditated or not, biases

Civil Society Organisations operating in Mutare welcome the notice by Freestone Mines (Pvt) Ltd to cancel the Dangamvura Mountain lease agreement. Through their legal practitioners, Mushoriwa Pasi Corporate Attorneys, Freestone Mines (Pvt) Ltd wrote to Mutare City Council notifying the local authority of their decision to cancel the lease agreement. According to a memo by

We, the civil society and residents’ groups operating in Mutare, hereby restate our position regarding the intention by Freestone Quarrying Company to carry out quarrying activities at Dangamvura Mountain. We take note of a recent meeting held at a town hall in Mutare where Freestone Mining, acting in cahoots with some officials at Mutare City

We, the Zimbabwe Civil Society groups, united in our common objective of defending our communities and national heritage against investment projects that disempower and impoverish our people, seek to register our deep concern with the behaviour of Chinese business operations in Zimbabwe. Our joint statement is not meant to defame China or trigger xenophobic resentment