THE DEVELOPMENT THAT BECAME A CURSE

For decades, dozens of families from Murape village in Ward
11, Bikita West have relied on water from a protected well at Nollen Farm for
domestic use but the construction of a slime dam by Bikita Minerals (Sinomine)
has left them, together with their …

For decades, dozens of families from Murape village in Ward 11, Bikita West have relied on water from a protected well at Nollen Farm for domestic use but the construction of a slime dam by Bikita Minerals (Sinomine) has left them, together with their livestock, stranded without access to a reliable safe source of water. The slime dam, in which the mine deposits residue from its mining