Africa-Press – Tanzania. ARTISANAL Salt miner here have asked the government to provide them with mining licences in order to formalise their activities.
Making the revelation, Hiari Group Chairman, Mr Mussa Mduma said lack of licence was a big challenge facing them, adding: “Some of us face untold sufferings for lack of licences, and hence, miss business opportunities.
“Lack of this document makes us become unrecognised and this inconveniences our activities.” Another member of the group, Mr Abdallah Lipapike, said that despite forming the association in 2017 and starting serious operations in 2020, they still lack legal papers to identify them.
He said the main objective of their group was to raise their livelihoods, but drawn back as a result of legal documents to operate.
For his part, coordinator of a non-government organisation called Might Society Against Poverty (Msoapo), Mr Mustapha Kuyungwa, said their organisation saw it important to help the group and enable the members to improve their incomes.
In partnership with the Oxfam, the organisation donated, among others, a gadget for testing quality of raw salt, water pump and constructed a warehouse for storing the products mined.
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