According to the Zimbabwe Miners Federation, the country may be losing 10 tonnes of lost gold production per month due to disputes over claims.
Many “makorokozas” are workers laid off by failed mines.
Those mines once provided them with some safety nets.
Now, many are dying in collapsed shafts and being forgotten.
Their relatives never get to mourn them or give them decent burials.
Small miners are digging up river banks and emptying mercury into water sources.
And yet, Government ministers tout this sort of mining as the priority over formal, regulated mining.
Chinamasa has asked the nation to stop complaining about the collapse of the formal economy, and to instead embrace the growing informal sector.
In Belmont, Bulawayo’s once buzzing industrial hub, a former textile factory was shut down and the shell is now home to Enlightened Christian Gathering, a church led by Shepherd Bushiri.
To Chinamasa, Mugabe and Maziwisa, we must not moan about the closure of this key garment factory.
It is after all a relic of the “old, dead economy”.
We must instead cheer the fact that, where once stood a factory that employed hundreds, now stands a church led by a man who claims to walk on air.-The Source
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