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MACHETE gangs, otherwise known as MaShurugwi, have reportedly gone underground following a nationwide police blitz which has seen nearly 2 000 illegal gold miners caged for terrorising communities in gold-rich parts of the country.A source close...

MINING communities around Zimbabwe are under siege. Marauding gangs of machete wielding thugs are roaming around gold rich districts unleashing violence and brutal murders on a scale never seen before. They have seemingly become a law unto...

SOME “avenging spirits” are said to have tormented a machete wielding killer who has handed himself to the police and confessed to using the weapon to hack down a fellow gold panner at a Masvingo mine...

THE Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) has expressed great concern over the increase in machete gangs’ activities around mining areas which continue to disturb the growth of the mining sector.For the past months, machete gangs have roamed...

Stakeholders in the mining sector have called for urgent action to stop pervasive involvement of political actors in illicit gold trade which they said was fomenting criminality and violence in the sector.As calls from civil society,...

Machete fight almost breaks out at a mine with hundreds of illegal miners in Zimbabwe.See video below:https://youtu.be/wvzTr7Cg4kk

Watch video when the maziga Machete gang leader was caught by the Police.https://youtu.be/C0IMYPfj8ks

In an attempt to disarm a security guard, a 27-year-old machete-wielding criminal believed to belong to a popular group called the team Barca was shot dead at Good hope mine in Kadoma, the Zimbabwe Republic Police...

One of the many machete gangs in the country going by the name MaZiga founded and headed by Pelah was caught on camera showing off their weapons. The group was celebrating what seemed to be a...

FOUR men armed with machetes knobkerries and shovels allegedly attacked mineworkers at Inyathi in Matabeleland North, getting away with 150kg of gold ore.Dumezweni Sibanda (40), Nkosinhle Mvundla (25), Langelihle Sibanda (28) and Nduna Kanye (18) allegedly...

REDCLIFF MP, Lloyd Mukapiko has hit out at the state security apparatus for indiscriminately attacking civilians in desperate attempts to contain the menace posed by machete-wielding gangs in his constituency.This comes after the state has deployed...

THE Zimbabwe Miners’ Federation (ZMF) has outlined an ambitious plan for this year targeting to eradicate violence and machete wars in the small-scale mining sector to create an investor-friendly environment and boost production.Of late, there have...