{"id":13668,"date":"2019-09-16T18:21:33","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T16:21:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/zimbabwe\/?p=13668"},"modified":"2019-09-16T18:21:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T16:21:33","slug":"chinese-miners-in-kidnapping-assault-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chinese-miners-in-kidnapping-assault-storm","title":{"rendered":"Chinese miners in kidnapping, assault storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Chinese nationals last week appeared before a Mvuma magistrate facing charges of kidnapping and assaulting the driver of a rival chrome mining company based at Lalapansi, accusing him of stealing their chrome ore.<\/p>\n<p>Liu Minghe (31) and Guan Dafeng (32), who are jointly charged with their employee Tafadzwa Tsungano (33) were not asked to plead when they appeared before magistrate Loice Munjeri. They were charged for kidnapping, assault and malicious damage to property.<\/p>\n<p>The court remanded them on free bail to September 30 to allow the State to find a Chinese interpreter.<\/p>\n<p>The accused operate a chrome mining firm SQ Need Company, while complainant is employed by rival company, Berkan-Fellmann Enterprises. Both companies are based in Lalapansi.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Michael Kazomba told the court that on September 7 at around 1500hrs, the three blocked the complainant, Efias Machipisa\u2019s way, along Mahamara Road in Lalapansi. They then damaged the truck windows before dragging him to their mining premises.<\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival at their premises with the complainant, the Chinese allegedly tied his hands to his back and ordered him to lie down facing the ground. The Chinese and their Zimbabwean co-accused took turns to assault the complainant with clenched fists accusing him of stealing their chrome ore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Chinese nationals last week appeared before a Mvuma magistrate facing charges of kidnapping and assaulting the driver of a rival chrome mining company based at Lalapansi, accusing him of stealing their chrome ore. Liu Minghe (31) and Guan Dafeng (32), who are jointly charged with their employee Tafadzwa Tsungano (33) were not asked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":9219,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[792,435,831],"class_list":{"0":"post-13668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-community","9":"tag-china-zimbabwe-relations","10":"tag-industry","11":"tag-kidnapping"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.1 (Yoast SEO v24.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Chinese miners in kidnapping, assault storm - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two Chinese nationals last week appeared before a Mvuma magistrate facing charges of kidnapping and assaulting the driver of a rival chrome\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chinese-miners-in-kidnapping-assault-storm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Chinese miners in kidnapping, assault storm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Two Chinese nationals last week appeared before a Mvuma magistrate facing charges of kidnapping and assaulting the driver of a rival chrome\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chinese-miners-in-kidnapping-assault-storm\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-09-16T16:21:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/2019\/05\/two-illegal-gold-panners-come-out-of-the-mine-were-the-accident-happened-on-Monday-001-610x330.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"649\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chinese-miners-in-kidnapping-assault-storm\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/chinese-miners-in-kidnapping-assault-storm\",\"name\":\"Chinese miners in kidnapping, assault storm - 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