A gruesome video showing a gang chopping a man’s legs with a machete has jolted Zimbabwe to act against spiralling cases of violence by artisanal gold miners, which is now morphing into a political crisis.
After the video circulated on social media, police launched an operation that netted 1,500 illegal gold panners in less than a week. Another 3,471 people were arrested in connection with the gang violence at illegal gold mining areas.
