PRESIDENT Hakainde Hichilema says mining should not pollute water bodies and the environment. President Hichilema also says his government wants minimum integrity standards in the construction of tailings facilities to avoid spillage. Speaking during a special radio interview on Radio Icengelo, Thursday, President Hichilema said no sane parent could send their children into a pit knowing they may not return because they could die. He added that as a responsible father of all Zambian children, his job was to ensure that no child died in pits while looking for money. “Four elements of mining, that’s what we want. I repeat, legal mining. We don’t want illegal mining, we don’t want to start killing each other, we don’t want rivers of...
