
News in depth: ‘We are drinking mercury’: Illegal gold mining exposes residents to poisoning
Jason Moyo, an artisanal miner at his mining station in Penhalonga. Picture: Farai Shawn Matiashe Every morning as Mercy Mubatsa fetches water from a tap outside her home in Penhalonga, a mining area 263 kilometres outside the Zimbabwean capital Harare, …