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informal mining

Is it any wonder that the holes of the Witwatersrand still scream with death?

Maverick News

Is it any wonder that the holes of the Witwatersrand still scream with death?

By Richard Poplak

Notes on the underground — where the most desperate and impoverished scavenge for illicit gold

Business Maverick

Notes on the underground — where the most desperate and impoverished scavenge for illicit gold

By Richard Poplak

Families demand justice after informal miners burn to death during police raid

South Africa

Families demand justice after informal miners burn to death during police raid

By Kimberly Mutandiro