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By Staff Reporter The degradation of the Lukosi River and mounting concerns over water extraction around Kalope Dam have raised questions about the environmental oversight of mining operations in Hwange, where rural communities fear that the pursuit of mineral wealth could undermine their access to water and threaten agricultural production. At a site near Hwange […]

Rivers are usually the great equalisers of cities. They carry water from one place to another, binding communities together and sustaining farms, livestock and ecosystems along their course. In Mutare, the Sakubva River has acquired a less flattering role: it has become a moving record of the city’s infrastructure failures.   By Donald Nyarota   

Zimbabwe is attempting to govern a 21st-century mineral boom with a mining law inherited from the colonial era. As the global economy races toward electric vehicles, renewable energy systems, and strategic mineral security, Harare is responding not with deep structural reform, but with policy declarations layered onto an exhausted and outdated legal framework. In its