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Chinese Company Hired To Reverse Environmental Damage Destroys Bridge While Searching For Gold at Night

3 weeks agoMon, 27 Jan 2025 11:11:28 GMT
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Chinese Company Hired To Reverse Environmental Damage Destroys Bridge While Searching For Gold at Night

A Chinese company hired by the Environmental Management Agency (EMA) to close open pits left by artisanal miners in Umzingwane River reneged on the deal and was found carrying out riverbed mining.

As reported by ZimLive, EMA terminated the partnership with the company, Friends of the Environment, but it is unclear if anyone was prosecuted.

Tafadzwa Muguti, the secretary for presidential affairs and devolution, revealed how Friends of the Environment duped EMA during his visit to the catchment areas of major dams in Matabeleland South to witness the environmental damage caused by illegal mining.

By engaging in illegal activities, Friends of the Environment damaged a bridge at the confluence of the Umzingwane and Inyankuni rivers.

Officials say this contributed to poor inflows into major dams supplying Bulawayo with water. Said Muguti:

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We had a Chinese company here, Friends of the Environment, who partnered with EMA and the province later found out that by day they were closing the pits in the name of Friends of the Environment and by night they were mining. They destroyed a whole bridge while looking for gold.

Rampant illegal mining is being blamed for the low water levels in dams supplying the City of Bulawayo, despite recent rainfall. Added Muguti:

There was a cabinet directive which ordered all provinces to intensify the anti-alluvial mining campaign.

Now this is almost a 150-meter bridge which was destroyed completely in the name of mining. This is the Umzingwane River, it supplies water to Bulawayo and the collapse of this bridge is causing water challenges as the water has stopped flowing.

Zimbabwe has experienced a surge in mining investment from Chinese companies, but Muguti acknowledges that “not everyone is here for the benefit of Zimbabwe.”

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27 Comments

ZimSketch · 3 weeks ago
let them rebuild the bridge and pay fine
Meda Online · 3 weeks ago
Our all weather friends from the East.
Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
Mukunyeperwa neEMA...agreement yaive ye alluvial mining not zvenyu zve reversal of environmental......
Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
Surely how can a whole country inoti, "Nyika inovakwa nevene vayo," hire a foreign company to do simple reclamation work? Who in his right senses thought the Chinese would fill pits dzine gold. EMA is complicity to environmental degradation and is now trying to hide behind a finger. Hanzi Zimbos are illiterate. Sure mhumhi kuchengeteswa danga rehwai and expect kuwana dzakakwana??? General hayo magandigoriya of gigantic proportion and stealing on an industrial scale akati Prof PLO Lumumba
African Observer · 3 weeks ago
muno mukutongoda uprising varume imi Ed nana chivhayo vake vanofanira kupamhanya mhani.
skun · 3 weeks ago
obviously ndochimh,a,ta chinoitwa nema china,varikuita madiro takatarisa shem, cry my beloved country,these people won't stop until order is restored in thi country especially ema if they do their job properly..
Sir African · 3 weeks ago
Ed achingobva chète tw**** twuvanhu twake
Oncemore · 3 weeks ago
Parasites
Enchanter¤ · 3 weeks ago
The Chinese were never our friends in the first place
WAR VET GEZA · 3 weeks ago
Zimbabwe Zimbabwe kusvika rinhi tichingovharwa,,Gore riya takanzi dhiziri pa chinhoyi,,iye zvino tonzi tiri kuvhara makomba vanhu vachitotora goridhe
theLastAntKing · 3 weeks ago
these Chinese people are evil 😈 together with those who brought them here
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Combat · 3 weeks ago
these Chinese do work with those Mbingas,
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Ndaitwa!! · 3 weeks ago
Jenerari vaziramba zvembinga 😂
Combat · 3 weeks ago
As soon as we take over this country we're going to chase away all Chinese dwarfs
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Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
Doubtful. Lungu promised that also and delivered the opposite.
Anonymous · 3 weeks ago
Obvious, none will be prosecuted. They will just open another company and continue.
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Sir African · 3 weeks ago
Kuno ku Gokwe anzi Saseme bridge rakatorwa na gabbion zvino hatizivi kut angara kupi ,tingadai tatevera.😅😅😅
M23 Rebel · 3 weeks ago
well done friends of the environment mazimbabweans akavata sterek
Sir African · 3 weeks ago
@M23 Rebel,Hatina kuvata,akavata ndi ED akauya nemaChina.Takatarisa tiger hedu Kumar terrace,Ambassador vekuAmerica vakzvitaura vakatukwa zvekuti heki using tankanyarara hedu tichiona tiriko Kumar terraces.
Sir African · 3 weeks ago
When we tell then about the Chinkies they throw everything including the kitchen sink at us.Government is well aware of what is taking place.It has EMA,Police,chiefs,headmen,CIOs Prison officers,agricultural extension workers,transport and roads personel and it was not aware of what was talking place.Lies big fat lies. Jordan Gumbo when he was minister of transport told us the they were cheated by the constructor of the Harare /Mutare road which he said was supposed to have dualized up to Mutare..
Gegeja · 3 weeks ago
American Ambassador said it mukamushora 😂😂😂😂😂😂
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Sir African · 3 weeks ago
FRIENDS OF VENE.Just wait and see,what this country will be like 2030.Vene and Chinkies would have destroyed all and sundry in his egregious greedy. Mati madii
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Mr Truth · 3 weeks ago
They are lying to us, EMA is trying to hide with a finger. How can they tell us they ddnt know about mining of gold
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😎Chirasha😎 · 3 weeks ago
haaa these Chinese fellows are just retrogrivise they neva have corporate social responsibility
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