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US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, has reportedly threatened in an interview with Financial times that ‘If China will not solve North Korea, we will do it alone’ US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP, Threatens ‘If China will not solve North Korea, we will do it alone’ The US president Donald Trump,who is due to host the Chinese president host Chinese President Xi Jinping at his Mar-a-Lago estate in South Florida, has told the Financial Times that China has…

THE forceful removal of Mbada Diamonds’ security personnel in the Chiadzwa diamond mining fields has resulted in thousands of artisanal miners besieging the area while alleged theft of diamond ore by the Zimbabwe Consolidated Diamond Mining Company (ZCDC) escalated, the court has been told.   Thousands of illegal diamond miners, who were evicted from the mining concessions about a decade ago, have since returned to Chiadzwa, raising fears the government could once again be losing…

Some artisanal miners across the country are reportedly exposing themselves and their family members to mercury poisoning through inhaling vapour and smoke during gold processing.   Reports say at times the panners also swallow gold nuggets laced with mercury to evade the police.   Most of the panners prefer handling the mercury without protective clothing for fear of losing some gold particles.   Mercury poisoning occurs through inhaling or coming into contact with vapour and…

I was a rookie activist plying the half-lit corridors of Harvest House, early 2000s on special official party assignments. Probably then, contemporary luminaries of MDCT politics – the Gutus, Chamisas and Mwonzoras of modern-day democratisation were languishing at some dingy tertiary institutions. I eventually got afflicted with a nagging feeling that academics were habitually resented in those trenches. One could sense an imaginary, yet palpable ‘them and us’ fissure between A-ntellectuals and F-graders. There was…

Mr Dave Watson ducked a bullet while a second one went through his thigh when the gang struck at about 8.30PM on Wednesday.   He told The Chronicle yesterday that he hid in a bush as the gunmen ransacked the house.   Mr Watson said as the intruders searched for money, he crawled into the house through a window to rescue his elderly mother-in-law.   He said it was only through God’s grace that he…