Council clamps down on panners

BULAWAYO City Council is conducting joint operations with the police to weed out gold panners and sand poachers causing siltation at Lower Ncema Dam.

Report by Nqobani Ndlovu

Council enlisted the services of the police following realisation that its rangers and municipal police were losing the fight against the artisanal miners and sand poachers.

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