The City Gold Built Is Being Hollowed Out From Below
Johannesburg was born from a gold rush in 1886 and grew into the richest city in Africa on the strength of what lay beneath it. Nearly a century and a half later, that same underground geology has become the city's most dangerous liability. Across Gauteng and the wider gold reef, illegal miners known as zama zamas, Zulu for " those who try" are descending into abandoned shafts by the thousand,…
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