ZimParks, war collaborators clash over mining project

WAR collaborators and a group of youths in Mashonaland Central have clashed with the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (ZimParks) after they were blocked from conducting a limestone mining project at Umfurudzi Game Park in the Madziwa area.

The war collaborators and their youth counterparts claimed that they had signed a partnership deal with a Canadian investor and formed a mining company trading as CMK Mining Syndicate.

According to correspondences gleaned by NewsDay, the syndicate wrote to the provincial mining director, Forbes Mugumbate, in February last year requesting to be granted a special mining grant in the wildlife sanctuary.

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