2019 Midterm Budget Review: How Agile or Fragile Is the Mining Fiscal Transparency Reform Agenda? By Mukasiri Sibanda Introduction Totemic. That is the word which perhaps sums up aptly the potential of Zimbabwe’ huge and diverse mineral wealth to propel the country’s socio-economic development agenda. Early this year, the Minister of Finance and Economic Development (MoFED), […]

The story of how the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) has managed to effectively defend communities and fight for environmental and social justice in Zimbabwe and at the global level has been told to several people willing to lend us their ear. So as I was flipping through the pages of our state owned Newspaper, […]

By Billian T Matambo Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Workers Union (ZIDAWU). As supported by section 149 of our constitution which grant Zimbabweans a right to petition its government, Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA), local CBOs, CSOs, youth movements, and relevant stakeholders in the extractive industry joined hands in petitioning the government on issues of concern […]

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By Vincent Ndagurwa and Ashlyn Chintokoma Many people might have heard about the recently held Environmental Child Rights Conference (ECRC) without necessarily having knowledge of what it was all about. We take this opportunity to unpack the Conference’s proceedings.Main focus will be put on its objectives and general outcome thereto as well as who the […]

By Siobhan Curran Houses are cracking, rubble and waste is being dumped in the river and women are forced to walk longer distances for clean water – all for the extraction of granite. Yet the communities are not seeing the benefits of this lucrative business https://www.trocaire.org/news/bhr-mining-zimbabwe

Our environment is falling apart. We are suffering from an unprecedented litter crisis and deforestation has reached such alarming levels that every year we are losing eight million hectares of tropical forests. Every minute, we are losing 36 million football fields worth of trees due to deforestation. However, the scariest thing for us as children […]

Introduction On the 7th of May 2019, the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association (ZELA) petitioned the Parliament of Zimbabwe and specifically the Chairperson of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Mining Development on the need for Responsible Investments in the Mining sector. ZELA petitioned the Parliament of Zimbabwe in terms of section 149 (1) of […]

By Mutuso Dhliwayo& Joyce Machiri The Zimbabwean Government was among the participants at the 8thExtractive Industries Transparency Initiative ( EITI) Global Conference  held in Paris, France from the 18th -19th of June 2019. The meeting’s theme “Open Data, Build Trust”was very apt as it underpins the need for building trust between stakeholders that are involved in […]