S. African communities terrorised by gold mining gangs

Walking between the corrugated iron shacks of the informal settlement west of Johannesburg she calls home, Lutho Makheyi points out trenches filled by dirty rainwater holing the unpaved streets. These are the scars left by illegal gold mining, a business she blames for the high levels of violent crime that haunt South Africa ahead of […]

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