Politicians use political clout

GURUVE — Politicians are reportedly using their clout to wrest chrome claims from small-scale claim holders in Guruve, community leaders told parliamentarians here on Wednesday.

The communities urged the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy on a countrywide tour of chrome mines to investigate lease agreements, tributes or certificates of transfers to Chinese miners, environmental degradation and how mining operations were benefiting communities.

During the public hearing conducted at Horseshoe Primary School in Mutoko, where 300 workers from Sun He Mine were affected by the ban of exports of raw chrome, small-scale miners indicated they were abused by politicians who grabbed their claims leaving them struggling to survive.

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