HARARE — A village head from Mashonaland West has approached the High Court seeking an urgent interdict to stop Pan Africa Mining (Pvt) Ltd from carrying out mining activities and constructing a dam along the Mupfure River, alleging the project threatens sacred cultural heritage sites linked to some of Zimbabwe's revered First Chimurenga heroes.

Descendants of Zimbabwean freedom fighters executed during colonial rule have renewed calls for British institutions to help locate and return the remains of their ancestors taken to the United Kingdom more than a century ago. The descendants, linked to leaders of the First Chimurenga uprising against colonial rule in the 1890s, have formally asked the Natural History Museum and the University of Cambridge to collaborate in finding skulls believed to have been taken after the