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It has been a year since the mudslide disaster claimed the lives of two people, left 40 others injured and displaced dozens of homeowners in Jagersfontein in the southern Free State.
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Illegal mining is a huge issue which has led to multiple deaths in South Africa.
Greed, poverty, irresponsible legal mining giants which exploited and then abandoned South Africa’s mines, together with the government’s failure to enforce regulations on the mining giants to rehabilitate mines before closing them
While the illegal artisanal mining sector, called Zama Zama, works in abandoned mines, it is almost impossible for artisanal miners to get licences.
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