Crackdowns fail, but legalising zama zama mining could bring safety, fairness, and community regeneration.
Legalising artisanal mining offers a sustainable solution to crime-ridden gold mines while revitalising communities and reducing exploitation.There is probably no better example of how a hard “take no prisoners” strategy works when trying to tackle a grave social ill than the global “war on drugs”.
Is it perhaps not a better idea, as suggested by mining expert and activist David van Wyk, that zama zama mining be legalised?He argues that if the current artisanal working of abandoned gold mines was made legal, the government would be able to buy the gold – paying a fair, nonexploitative price for it and squeezing out the criminal mafias that are presently sending the men to their deaths underground.
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