The army moved in in April and has kept it clean for nearly two months, putting an end to an overly aggressive form of illegal mining that was washing away the entire landscape, inflicting irreversible environmental damage.
Efforts to pressure the military by Zanu PF politicians, who feared an electoral backlash from locals who had built their livelihoods around the illegal mining operations, have been resisted bringing back sanity to the area.
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