PICS: Abandoned gold mines a 'deadly panacea' for Zimbabwe's jobless | IOL News

Some of the artisanal gold miners at an abandoned mine. Pictures: ANAPicture: ANAPicture: ANAHarare ‑ At a small mining community in Battlefields near Kadoma, about 157 km south west of the capital, jobless people sit under trees to escape the burning sun.

Rosemary Maruza, wife of one of the survivors, says on the fateful day, her husband did not want to go to the mine. He had complained that he was tired. “It is a win-win situation, they are returning to the same mining fields that robbed them of their friends,” surmises Oliver Tseurai, a mining mill owner.

For the miners, it is a life-threatening adventure as they have to go even as deep as 40 m, in the process inhaling dust from the blasting of ore. Gold mining has been attributed with the bad and good side. For the lucky ones, a fortune defines destiny. “It is not a secure venture. At times, you carry very heavy sacks yet what you get in return is little, or even nothing,” Chitsa says.

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