Ubuntu PhotoNews: Poverty Ravages Zimbabweans Despite Mineral Wealth Extracted From Their Lands
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Poor, underdeveloped and derelict township in diamond-rich Marange area where Chinese miners pillaged the gems, leaving villagers mired in abject poverty. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo / Ubuntu Times
The gross underdevelopment of diamond-rich Marange. 
Hordes of slums dot gold-rich Shurugwi where mining corporations have over the years extracted the precious metal, however neglecting the general outlook of the communities whose gold wealth has enriched them. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo / Ubuntu Times
Slums and underdevelopment in gold-rich Shurugwi. 
Located in Venture, a place in the mining town of Kadoma in an area called Patchway in Zimbabwe’s Mashonaland West Province, is a poor home consisting of two accommodation features- a mud-plastered single room house roofed with a single zink sheet and a thatched kitchen hut built from sticks plastered with mud although the home stands in the midst of gold wealth. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo / Ubuntu Times
Small house structure made from sticks plastered with mud, roofed with a single zink sheet standing side by side to a thatched kitchen hut made from sticks covered by mud as the plastering and an obscure thatched hut closer to the home structure.

In Patchway, a gold-rich area in Zimbabwe’s Kadoma town in Mashonaland West Province, lies an old thatched house built from mud-plastered sticks where some people here have called home for years despite being resident in a gold-rich area. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo / Ubuntu Times
Old thatched house made from wooden sticks
plastered with mud standing adjacent a thatched hut also built from wooden sticks plastered with mud, with the mud house partly fenced with cheap wooden sticks.
In a gold-rich mining area called Patchway located in Kadoma in Zimbabwe at a place called Venture, lies a poverty-ridden home made from pole and mud despite the residents here domiciled in the gold-rich spot where the precious stone is being extracted every day. Credit: Jeffrey Moyo / Ubuntu Times
Mud and pole home structure with olden zink
sheets as roof, a one roomed home built using home-made bricks, roofed with a single old zink sheet, and another obscure thatched hut plastered with mud.