Mutare Civil Society Organisations on government ban on river bed mining

The Centre for Research and Development (CRD) in collaboration with Penhalonga Youth Development Trust (PYDT),Penhalonga Residents and Ratepayers Trust (PRRT), Penhalonga Service Delivery Committee (PSDC), Arda Transau Relocation Development Trust (ATRDT), Zivai Community Empowerment Trust (ZICET) and Chimanimani Development Trust (CDT) received government announcement on Tuesday 20 August 2023 to ban riverbed mining with skepticism. We are civil society groups and residents’ trusts working in resource rich communities in Manicaland Province such as Penhalonga, Odzi and Chimanimani where riverbed mining is taking place. We have strongly recommended against riverbed mining from its onset in the Province in 2010.

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