
Chiadzwa’s Diamond Curse: Climate Change, Environmental Destruction and a Broken Community
By Fanuel Chinowaita CHIADZWA, ZIMBABWE , 15 May 2025– What was once a beacon of Zimbabwe’s economic promise has become a symbol of environmental destruction and social decay. The diamond mining boom in Chiadzwa, which began in 2006, enriched Chinese nationals, politically connected elites, and private syndicates but left the local community impoverished, displaced, and…