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A miner carries a load of ore at Manzou Farm, owned by Grace Mugabe, wife of former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, in Mazowe, Zimbabwe. (JEKESAI NJIKIZANA/AFP via Getty Images)
ARTISANAL SMALL SCALE GOLD MINING

Zimbabwe’s youth caught between patronage and plunder

It is estimated that gold worth $1.5 billion is smuggled annually out of Zimbabwe but this is only the tip of what has led to chronic poverty

  • Jaynisha Patel
  • Cyprian Muchemwa
7 min read