So, unless the officials get down to the ground to assess the reality of organising real gold panners, all they will achieve in terms of assistance will be to empower already existing small-scale miners while at the same time encouraging environmental degradation by the real panners whose activities, no matter how destructive, would become legal.
As usual, efforts by VP Mujuru and Mpofu would end up materially benefiting a few miners who are already established while the real gold panner will only benefit by evading arrest for their wanton destruction of the environment.
http://www.newsday.co.zw/article/2012-07-30-the-real-gold-panner-cannot-be-regularised/
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