Statement: Why is the government not reporting the many deaths occurring at the Black Mountain in Kitwe?
Videos are circulating on social media calling on the authorities to do something about the rising deaths at the Black Mountain. But the government is dead silent and not doing much, or anything, to stop this exceptionally very high mortality.
The reality of the deaths at the Black Mountain is being hidden from the nation.
The primitive extraction methods being used at the Black Mountain mean that our young people risk death or serious injuries everyday.
Effective health and safety monitoring mechanisms are severely lacking at the Black Mountain.
We call on the government to suspend operations at the Black Mountain until proper and accessible safety measures at are put in place.
Fred M’membe
President of the Socialist Party
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