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Boterekwa collapse a tip of the iceberg
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Boterekwa collapse a tip of the iceberg
Freedom Mupanedemo
Midlands Bureau
SEVEN years ago, reports surfaced that a two-roomed house in “Scenic Shurugwi” had disappeared into a sinkhole after a mine tunnel collapsed.
Although no one was inside the house, the hair-raising incident left the community shocked.
In 2014, a man living in a compound of a mining company in Kwekwe lost his garden and orchard after the ground gave in, in what was suspected to be a mineshaft failure.
To much shock and awe, a report, however, revealed that the entire town of Kwekwe was in danger of disappearing into the belly of the earth.
Although this was roundly dismissed, many people still live in fear of being buried alive as hundreds, if not thousands, of tunnels meander under the mining towns of Shurugwi and Kwekwe.
For years, chiefs in Shurugwi, Mapanzure and Zvishavane have complained about losing livestock in open pits dug by miners, legal and illegal, in their communities.
A section of a road that links Mandamabwe and Zvishavane was swept away by rains after chrome miners dug too close to the road on either side of the highway.
Much damage has been caused to the environment, road infrastructure, schools and communities in general along the Great D**e, particularly in the Midlands Province.
This time, environmental transgressions of the past may have finally caught up with everyone who has turned a blind eye.
Boterekwa escarpment, a six-kilometre mountainous stretch of road linking Shurugwi town to Mapanzure communal lands to the south of the mining town, is finally giving in.
After years of being undermined, literally, by fortune-seekers, the meandering road that snakes its way through the Boterekwa Pass in Shurugwi is collapsing.
Built several decades ago by Italian craftsmen, the breath-taking road
SEVEN years ago, reports surfaced that a two-roomed house in “Scenic Shurugwi” had disappeared into a sinkhole after a mine tunnel collapsed. Although no one was inside the house, the hair-raising incident left the community shocked.