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Zimbabwe Independent Legislator Takes on Chinese Companies for Worker Abuse

Zimbabwe Independent Legislator Takes on Chinese Companies for Worker Abuse
Zimbabwean member of Parliament Temba Mliswa visits Chinese company Sunny Yi Feng Tiles Zimbabwe on June 26, 2019. Courtesy Temba Mliswa
Andrew Mambondiyani
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MUTARE, Zimbabwe—A Zimbabwean legislator is taking on Chinese companies that he says aren’t adhering to local laws and are abusing workers in the African nation.

China’s investments in the country should be reviewed, as they are skewed in favor of the Chinese, Temba Mliswa, an independent member of Parliament for Zimbabwe’s Norton Constituency, told The Epoch Times.

Andrew Mambondiyani
Andrew Mambondiyani
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Andrew Mambondiyani is a freelance journalist based in Zimbabwe with more than 10 years of journalism experience. He served as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT between 2010 and 2011, and in 2008 served as a Middleburry College Environment Journalism Fellow. His journalism has appeared in various local and international publications, including BBC, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Yale E360, IPs, Think Africa Press, SciDev.net, Centrepoint Now, Opendemocracy.net, and The Zimbabwean. He has a special interest in climate change, agriculture, human rights, sustainable development, and the environment in general.
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