Mexico’s proposed higher mining royalties could block nearly $7bn in investments
The Mexican government proposed raising mining royalties under the argument that metal prices have risen in recent years.
Zimbabwe’s Newsday reports the National Mine Workers’ Union has complained about the working conditions at Chinese-owned chrome and gold mines dotted around the Midlands region, saying they were inhuman and unsafe.
At a meeting to commemorate the death of 427 Hwange miners at the Kamandama underground mine in 1972, national organising secretary Cotten Ndlovu said miners at Chinese-run companies were being forced to work long hours without incentives and protective clothing and accused Chinese mining firms of flouting the country’s labour laws.
They (Chinese) always want to marry the working conditions from their countries with our own, but it doesn’t tally at all.
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Farai
The paper quoted is generally pro-western (in a partisan way) and tends to depict non western development initiatives in an exagerated and dreadful manner. That there are challenges at Chinese run operations cannot be denied but then again try checking out local mining units and the story takes a different pitch. The Chinese are on a learn curve and so are the zimbabweans and zambians.