President Mnangagwa's niece Henrietta Rushwaya is President of the Zimbabwe Miners' Federation which controls artisanal lithium mining at the Sandawana Lithium Project one of the biggest in the country...
In addition to the accusations behind the Global Magnitsky sanctions a 2021 report in South Africa's Daily Maverick ‘Cartel Power Dynamics in Zimbabwe' claimed that Auxillia her son Collins Mnangagwa and the chair of the Zimbabwe Miners' Federation Henrietta Rushwaya smuggle gold for the elite out of the country...
She briefly led the Zimbabwe Miners' Federation a key constituency and revenue source for Mnangagwa before being replaced by his relative Henrietta Rushwaya – who was infamously caught smuggling gold out of Harare International Airport in her handbag in 2020 (AC Vol 64 No 5 Elite sets itself for lithium boom)...
When Henrietta Rushwaya president of the Zimbabwe Miners' Federation (ZMF) which claims to represent artisanal miners visited the area in December miners threw stones and she had to flee...
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