A manager at a Chinese-owned mine has been shot after two workers were shot during a dispute over pay at a mine in Zimbabwe on Sunday 21 June 2020. The incident happened at the Reden Mine at Shamrock Park near Gweru in Midlands Province, where about 30 workers had gathered to protest issues over the payment of salaries, when the manager Mr Zhang Xuelin, 50, fired into the crowd with a shotgun, injuring two mine employees, Mr Kenneth Tachiona, who received three wounds to the thighs, and Mr Wendy Chikwaira, who was injured on the chin.
Mine manager Zhang Xuelin, 50, (right) at the Gweru Magistrates Court in Zimbabwe on Tuesday 23 June 2020. Harare Live.
Mr Zhang appeared at the Gweru Magistrates Court on Tuesday 23 June 2020, where has was remanded in custody until 7 July 2020, having been charged with two counts of attempted murder. He was unable to enter a plea as there was no certified Chinese interpreter available. The Chinese Embassy in Harare has agreed to pay the two injured men's medical bills, and has issued a statement that it was an isolated incident, and they hoped it would not affect relations between China and Zimbabwe.
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