From Diamonds to Dust, Lithium to Lies: Zimbabwe’s Broken Resource Curse
By Fanuel Chinowaita A thick, red haze hangs over the 40-kilometer track from Murambinda Road to the Sabi Star lithium mine. It’s a new road for a new boom, but the scene is a grim replay of an old story. This choking dust is the same that once swallowed the diamond fields of Chiadzwa, and…