(Harare)Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe has handed 3 elephants to China. This was in appreciation for the fact that China helped President Mugabe’s wife build an orphanage for 1000 children.
“On the 19th May this year, President Mugabe reaffirmed the Presidential Decree, protecting the Presidential Herd of elephants. We do not know where the 3 donated elephants came from but on the one hand, the president is promising to protect the elephants, and on the other, he is giving them away – subjecting them to a long traumatic journey which they may not even survive,” a statement by the Zimbabwe conservation Task Force reads.
Meanwhile, the ZCTF has raised concerns about a Chinese-owned milling company in Shamva, next door to the GMB. It is alleged that gold miners in Umfurudzi, Shamva and Bindura take their ore to the milling company to have the gold extracted.
The milling company sells 3,5 kilograms of mercury to each miner and this mercury is then used in separating the gold from the ore.
“After separation, the balance of the ore is dumped in a huge pile which is now approximately 15 feet high, 30 feet wide and 60 feet long and the complainants are concerned that there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that the mercury is removed from the waste ore prior to dumping.
The mill runs 24 hours per day and mills four tons of ore per hour This means that approximately 96 tons are milled and dumped per day. One miner claims that he used 700 grams of mercury to process 28 tons of ore,” reports the ZCTF. The biggest concern is that when the rains come, the mercury contaminated waste ore will be washed into the Mazoe River system, poisoning the water for aquatic life and humans. Mercury can cause various diseases including cancer. The ZCTF has appealed to the Environmental Management Authority to investigate urgently (ZimEye, Zimbabwe)
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Haiya!!! Zvinebasa tsvee take take na mugabe. Muchamera chimugabe pamromo.
What shall we do , if we donate – its wrong . If we keep them they are increasing like nobody. Which way forward.
I don’t mind 3 elephants, hapana nyaya apa. Otherwise the article does not tell us the real story. 80% of the articles is about small-scale mining activities along the Mazoe river. All the same, I have said time and again, ZANU PF and the splintered MDCs have no solutions for this country’s problems except bickering and blame-shoving. ZANU ikatenge nani kunyange vachidonata nzou dzedu…
Zimbabweans should just export these zanu muppets to china instead.
SAKA ANOTENGESA NYIKA NDIANI……VERY SAD MUGABE IS RIPPING ZIMBABWE TO PLEASE HIS CHINESE FRIENDS….ZIMBABWE DIS NOT MUGABE S PROPERTY SO HANDS OFF OUR BELOVED ZIMBABWE U STUPID MUGABE………CHINA IS CORRUPT IT BEFRIEND EVIL CORRUPT AFRICAN REGIMES FOR ITS BENEFIT………ZIMBABWE IS AFRICA S BIGGEST HUNTING GROUND FOR CHINA……THANKS TO DAFT MUGABE ..CHINA IS THE WORLD S BIGGEST ECONOMY TODAY….IT IS ZIMBABWEAN RESOURCES WHICH ARE BUILDING CHINA WHILE ZIMBABWE IS SINKING DEEPER INTO POVERTY,…SURELY MUGABE NEED TO BE STOPPED NOW….ZIMBAWE IS GETTING NOTHING FROM CHINA EXCEPT ARMS AND STUPID ZHING ZHONGS
Meat or ivory
Beware of zanu muppets bearing elephants.
I wonder if they still have their tasks!!! Kikikikikikikikiki.
This bloody chinese puppet is selling our country to these chinese,he is useless like tswangilayi
Always going to be better to propagate the African elephants in China, rather than culling them, or having the evil euros coming to Africa just to shoot elephants for a few stinking devil dollars.
1000 orphans, human orphans, vs 3 elephants and there is a story. Bob should have given 10…
chero kuvapa gumi hapana nyaya
foolish mugabe selling out zimb to sino hungry policies…its horrible
The elephants are STATE PROPERTY and not MUGABE’S PERSONAL PROPERTY!!
If Mugabe wants to give something to china why doesn’t he REPAY HIS DEBTS to them or give them some of the loot he has stolen in 31-years in power.