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The gangs run huge risks. it really is a brutal province for anybody who wants to expose the truth. a gangster kind of economy. yeah, definitely. life is cheap in this country. you can hire hit men for 10,000 rand — that's m00. so, the system is, ithink, rotten to the core. and dangerous? yeah, absolutely. but stolen coal is only part of a much bigger problem. spread across this province are a dozen coal—fired power plants. they look like ships that have run aground. we're now driving to one named tutuka. a huge plant. but today, it's barely functioning, brought to its knees by years of mi...

We hear gunshots. gunshots. even they are fighting amongst themselves. the different gangs? yes. we need to be careful, then. yes. because there's so much money at stake... yes. ..that they will kill for it. they'll do that. let's see if we can try and talk to one of the truck drivers with the coal, once they've left this area. is it quite a dangerous business to be involved in? yeah, sometimes it is because you don't know whether the mine is illegal or legal. and then, you take your truck to that mine only to find out that that mine is illegal. localjournalists investigating the gangs run hug...