Zimbabwe Indigenous Miners’ Association plans to educate and empower illegal miners The Zimbabwe Indigenous Miners’ Association (Zima) plans to embark on an outreach campaign to educate and empower illegal miners on how to formalise their operations (Chronicle 10/03/13). ZIMA business co-ordinator Mr Nqobizitha Dube told Chronicle news reporter that they will educate illegal miners operating in remote areas on how they can acquire prospector’s licences as well as facilitate in creating links with investors. How then Zimbabwe will benefit out of this campaign? 1. Since illegal miners pose threats to the environment, the campaign will lessen that. Education will make illegal miners to realise that their activities pose threats to environment. 2. Zimbabwe’s economy will improve in the sense that minerals which were being smuggled into neighbouring countries like South Africa would be channelled to Zimbabwe’s mineral basket.