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'It's all we have': the plight of S.Africa's informal miners

It s all we have : the plight of S.Africa s informal miners
AFP
5 hrs ago
AFP
© Emmanuel Croset
Miners manually hew coal and drag it up to the surface, where it sells for just $35 per tonne
Darkness enveloped a disused mine in South Africa s Mpumalanga province as a pick-up truck left the site s entrance and drove off into the night, loaded with coal.
Informal miner Bonginkosi Mhlanga threw a pickaxe over his shoulder and descended back below ground, where he would remain until daybreak.
Locally known as zama zamas those who try and try in the Zulu language Mhlanga and his counterparts scrape a living by chipping away at abandoned mine shafts previously exploited by mining conglomerates. ....

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The plight of South Africa's 'Zama Zama' illegal miners

There are tens of thousands of
zama zamas in South Africa, where the unemployment rate is over 30%. Those who try and try again , in Zulu, share the remains of old wells that have been abandoned because they are no longer profitable, often at the same time as the local workforce, creating pockets of poverty.
Bonginkosi descends the 82 steps that lead dozens of meters underground. They quickly become wet and slippery. The air is getting tighter.
The corridor of the mine is 1.60 m high. With their backs bent, a bag of coal on their backs, the zama zamas pass in the deep darkness climbing. They then bring to the surface the fruit of their work of one or several days. ....

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'It's all we have': the plight of S.Africa's informal miners

'It's all we have': the plight of S.Africa's informal miners
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