{"id":208489,"date":"2025-09-29T07:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zctu-slams-sino-bikita-minerals-says-sovereignty-has-been-mortgaged\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T07:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T05:11:29","slug":"zimbabwe-zctu-slams-sino-bikita-minerals-says-sovereignty-has-been-mortgaged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zctu-slams-sino-bikita-minerals-says-sovereignty-has-been-mortgaged\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: ZCTU Slams Sino-Bikita Minerals, Says Sovereignty Has Been Mortgaged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has accused the government of mortgaging the country&#8217;s sovereignty to Chinese investors who continue to abuse workers&#8217; rights across multiple sectors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">According to the United Nations COMTRADE database, Zimbabwe&#8217;s exports of mineral substances to China reached US$221.03 million in 2024. However, communities living near mining operations tell a different story&#8211;one of underpayment, unsafe working conditions, physical assaults, and other inhumane&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509260117.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) has accused the government of mortgaging the country&#8217;s sovereignty to Chinese investors who continue to abuse workers&#8217; rights across multiple sectors. According to the United Nations COMTRADE database, Zimbabwe&#8217;s exports of mineral substances to China reached US$221.03 million in 2024. However, communities living near mining operations tell a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,9587,52446,257,52445,9757,254,864,17581,4686,421],"class_list":["post-208489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-minerals","tag-mortgaged","tag-news","tag-sinobikita","tag-slams","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sovereignty","tag-zctu","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}