It is shameful and saddening that Zimbabwe is sitting in a mess, yet its mining sector is highly diversified, with close to 40 minerals.
The predominant minerals include platinum group metals, chrome, gold, coal and diamonds.
There are 22 minerals mined in South Africa.
It is painful when we look at Zimbabweans living in South Africa without documents; four out of five of the almost 1 million Zimbabweans officially outside the country live in South Africa.
Botswana has the second highest number of emigrants from the country, with just above 40 000.
Reasons for this include limited economic opportunities, political instability, poor environment and natural resource quality, unfavourable socio-cultural settings and poor socio-economic resource distribution.
In South Africa, Zimbabweans are facing painful problems like rampant poverty, unemployment, overcrowding, inequality and…