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Suspicion, fear and secrecy: An artisan miner processes ore. The gold is weighed by syndicates to calculate what to pay the miners. (Cynthia Matonhodze/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
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Inside Zim’s illicit gold mine trade

Desperate people mine the mineral, but it is ‘untouchable big people’, including top state officials, who reap the real benefits

  • Stephen Tsoroti
  • Ankita Anand
7 min read