'They want to remove us and take the rock', say Zimbabweans living near Chinese-owned mines

As companies extract wealth, villagers say they see little benefit and are instead exploited in quarries, live in homes damaged by blasts and are unable to farm polluted landA convoy of trucks laden with huge black granite rocks trundles along the dusty pathway as a group of villagers look on grimly.Every day more than 60 trucks take granite for export along this rugged road through Nyamakope village in the district of Mutoko, 90 miles east of Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. Continue reading...