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Director Executivo: Rui Vasconcelos* Sede: AAAJC* Telefone: 20030252*Cidade de Tete* Bairro Chingodzi* Editado em Português e Inglês
Director Executivo Rui Vasconcelos* Sede: AAAJC* Telefone: 20030252*Cidade de Tete* Bairro Chingodzi* Editado em Português e
Edition nº108
tol Resourses in the well-known Industrial Free Zone of development of mining within Tete Province is growing
Rovubué, a potential region between the districts of Chiúta exponentially, reducing areas of agricultural activities. By
and Moatize in the province of Tete, is expected next year. It the way, Tete has always been mainly driven as an agricul-
is a project that has a concession covering an area of 4456 tural province. With the development of mining in the area,
hectares, overlapping 8 villages with Mboza and Tenge- the focus is slowly shifting from agriculture to mining, a
Makodwe in the district of Moatize and Nhambia, Mbuzi, determining factor for the trustees, to support communities
Muchena, Chianga, Matacale and Massamba located in the in this process. These communities will have their lives hav-
district of Chiúta.The government considers this to be an ing a direct impact on the iron and steel industry, which is
industrial free zone, which presupposes that it requires ap- why it is necessary to identify and quantify the potential
proximation and monitoring. In addition, the decision opens health impacts of the community and to distinguish differ-
space for the installation in the same space of other industries ences in exposure and susceptibility of these communities.
complementary to the activity of steel production promoted Thus, in addition to a demographic profile of the population
by Capitol Resources in Ntenje, which may start soon. It is at risk and identification of the most vulnerable groups that
for this reason that the AAAJC, raises the critical points of the can be identified through stratification of the communities
Feasibility Study of the Iron and Steel Industrial Project of affected by the project, it is crucial to understand how devel-
Capitol Resources, which will invest US $ 950 million in a opment, construction and operation activities are likely to
mining concession with a term of 25 years in the districts of cause impact both at home and in the local community, an-
Chiúta and Moatize, in which it is estimated during the con- other basis of AAAJC's interest. Already the possible im-
struction phase of the enterprise, to create 3,500 jobs and that pacts to be caused by the resettlement of those eight commu-
2,100 remain in the operational phase, in the steel industry, a nities, changes in social structures, or inflows that cause in-
coal-fired power station with an installed capacity of 250 creases in population density are considered in the scope of
megawatts of electrical energy. The Project area overlaps social and health assessments in general.