By JOHN SAKALA Mines Minister Richard Musukwa has today told Chingola based small scale miners popularly known as Jerabos to reorganize themselves if they are to benefit from copper dump sites like their colleagues in Kitwe. Speaking at his Chililabombwe office when he met leaders of the Jerabos, Mr Musukwa said that Government can’t regulate […]
They are called small scale miners by politicians during the campaigns, they are called stone dealers by the women they prey and they call themselves jerabos in reference to illegal miners. But why sugar coat the name. These are simply thugs whose livelihood depends on stealing copper to survive.
Editorial There has been much talk about where the gang of jerabos is getting the power from to go flat out terrorizing residents on the Copperbelt. Well we have a few images where politicians in Government are seen posing with jerabos. make your own conclusions. See related stories: Jerabos: incubated terrorists Chingola’s notorious jerabo gang […]
The story below was lifted from Soko Mumba’s Facebook page Late we have seen a new trend of violence in the form of groups of young men rising up against the community and themselves in Zambia. This trend is not different from terrorism or rebel acts which I can loosely define as terrorism. Terrorism is […]
By ALICE NACHILEMBE The leader of jerabos gang Kabaso Mulenga popularly known as Spax has appeared before the Chingola Magistrate Court for assault. Particulars of the offence before Chingola Resident Magistrate Peggy Banda were that Spax on May 19 this year unlawfully assaulted Emmanuel Mwiinga 22, of SNDP, thereby occassioning him to bodily harm. Spax […]
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