Loss Of Lives Through Illegal Mining Shows Failure By Previous Governments To Secure Benefits For Local People
By Michael Kaluba
Mining expert James Musonda has attributed the continued loss of lives through illegal mining activities to people’s desperation and failure by previous governments to secure benefits for the local people.
Mr. Musonda tells Phoenix News that Zambia will continue to be poor with the belief that foreigners will run its mines better.
He has since suggested a total takeover of the country’s mines, the development of new ones by locals, and for specialists and expatriates to only be hired from the global labor market.
He argues that with mining employing only 2 percent of the Zambian labor force, benefits will continue to result in avoidable deaths such as the latest death of the three illegal miners at Kasenseli gold mines and several others before including the 11 small scale miners who died at the black mountain in Kitwe in 2018.
He has challenged the government to not only talk of issuing licenses to small-scale miners but also facilitate loans and mining equipment for them.
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