Publications

The Great Lithium Heist: A Nation at a Crossroads This 13th edition of The Weekly arrives at a moment of uneasy contradiction. Zimbabwe stands at the centre of a global green transition, endowed with lithium deposits that power the technologies of tomorrow. Yet across the country, from Bikita to Kamativi, from Shurugwi to Murape, a different story

Zimbabwe’s vast natural resource wealth continues to tell two conflicting stories, one of economic promise, and another of deepening inequality, environmental harm, and community dispossession. The Centre for Natural Resource Governance (CNRG) 2025 Annual Report captures this tension while documenting a year of bold action, community resistance, and growing impact.   A Year Defined by Struggle and

Editorial Note | The Weekly – 10th Edition Development, in its most compelling form, promises progress, opportunity, and shared prosperity. Yet, as this edition of The Weekly reveals, the lived reality across many African communities tells a more complicated story, one where the gains of development are unevenly distributed, and its costs are often borne by those

Editorial Note – Weekly, 10th Edition In this 9th edition of The Weekly, a clear and unsettling pattern emerges: Zimbabwe’s extractive sector is not merely an economic space, but a contested terrain where power, rights, and survival intersect. From Mutare to Shurugwi, from Chiadzwa to Penhalonga, the stories in this issue collectively interrogate a central question—who

Gold, Power, and the Politics of Transition This week’s edition lays bare a defining feature of Zimbabwe’s political economy: the persistent entanglement of natural resources, power, and public interest. Across gold, lithium, wildlife, and climate finance, a single question echoes—who truly benefits? Our lead story on riverbed mining exposes a familiar pattern dressed in new

Editorial Note Across Africa, the wealth buried beneath the soil continues to shape the lives of millions. Minerals power global industries, fuel national economies, and promise development for resource-rich nations. Yet, as the stories in this edition of The Weekly 7th reveal, the benefits of extraction are often accompanied by profound human, environmental, and social costs. This

Editorial Note – AMI Special Edition Welcome to this special edition of the CNRG Weekly Newsletter. This issue captures a pivotal moment in the struggle for accountable and people-centred natural resource governance. From the 17th Alternative Mining Indaba in Cape Town to critical reflections on Mutapa’s unbundling, and from confronting corporate–political collusion to amplifying community

Editor’s Note | The Weekly – Issue 2 This week’s Weekly tracks a global commodities system under strain, and the uneven costs of adaptation across Africa’s extractive frontiers.   We lead with diamonds, once the continent’s most reliable source of fiscal sparkle, now dulled by technological disruption. Botswana and Angola, longstanding pillars of the global diamond trade,