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Miner dig deep music5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() However, what fills me (and, so many others privy of these destructive practices in Kwekwe) with much indignation, is that - these illegal gold miners, commonly known as Makorokoza, do not work alone - but, are either actually under the employ of some powerful political figures, or permitted to run amok under the guise of supposed ‘empowerment projects', in exchange for votes. What makes the Kwekwe situation not only bizarre, but actually angering is that - innocent school children's lives were placed in grave danger, purely out of the sheer greed for wealth by a group of illegal gold miners - who have been recklessly digging all over the vicinity of the Globe and Phoenix Gold Mine, and the city of Kwekwe, in search of the so-called yellow metal, for the past few decades. Was there a sinkhole developing beneath the school - bringing back harrowing memories of the eleven homes that were swallowed up by the earth in Land O' Lakes, Florida (US), in 2017, or the 30-storey deep hole in Guatemala, or Oklahoma's famed sinking ghost town?Īs much as all these examples are devastating and gruesome enough - nonetheless, most were as a result of natural phenomenon - suspected to have been the function of dissolving limestone or similar soluble rock underground, which led to the opening up of the earth's surface. ![]() It was so painful trying to explain how on earth a whole classroom could simply cave into the ground underneath. In fact, the stab to my heart was made more excruciating - as if a knife was being cruelly turned and twisted within - when I began receiving messages from folks the world over, inquiring over these shocking scenes. It was the most heartbreaking sight - as images of a collapsed primary school in my home city of Kwekwe made the rounds across the country.
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