MINES and Minerals Development Minister Paul Kabuswe says people must survive, but not through illegal mining. And Kabuswe says government will interrogate why illegal mining has persisted despite putting up measures to curb the vice. In an interview, Friday, Kabuswe said government had shut down Lwiili mine, where 10 lives were recently lost. “We shut it down, so how else could you do it? You close something and yet there are people sneaking in. Like we have emphasised, government has put measures in place but people sometimes are sneaking into these places and begin to mine and this is the result. People are not listening, we will be more stringent as government because we are giving out licences to formalise...

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