‘Govt loses fight to illegal diamond miners’

CHIADZWA villagers have queried government’s continued deployment of soldiers to the diamond-rich area, claiming that security forces have lost the war to illegal diamond miners and buyers who have flooded the community.

Bocha Diamonds Community Trust chairperson Moses Mukwada made the remarks on Saturday at a Manicaland mining indaba to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the extractives sector.

The meeting was organised by the Zimbabwe Environmental Law Association, Zimbabwe Council of Churches and Zimbabwe Coalition on Debt and Development.

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