WMC Women Under Siege
September 01, 2020 | Ray Mwareya | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Miners’ Wives Take On a Zimbabwe Coal Giant to Pay Up Forgotten Wages

Some of the workers at Zimbabwe’s Hwange Colliery Company haven't been paid wages for years. Fearing reprisal if they tried to fight for them, their wives, mothers, and sisters have adopted their grievances, protesting for the wages and laying sporadic sieges at the mine’s gates.

WMC Women Under Siege
June 05, 2020 | Melody Chikono | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Zimbabwe’s women miners left vulnerable to machete-wielding gangs

Continuous attacks by machete-wielding gangs against artisanal miners in Zimbabwe disproportionately affect women miners, highlighting longstanding impediments for women to access the sector and threatening the government's target for an annual mining revenue of $12 billion by 2023.


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