Destructive mining activities must stop

IN yesterday’s issue of NewsDay we carried a story titled: Alarm over lithium mining near school, which highlighted that Sandawana Primary School in the Midlands province is facing a potential health crisis because of lithium mining activities taking place near the school where a cloud of dust now covers the area.

In the story, the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) informs us that some “learners and teachers have withdrawn from the school due to the mining activity taking place close to the school”. Artuz also said: “It is unfortunate that the government chooses profits over the wellbeing of the learners and teachers.

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