{
  "id": 4830284,
  "title": "The City Gold Built Is Being Hollowed Out From Below",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/01/the-city-gold-built-is-being-hollowed-out-from-below",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-01T08:59:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "IOL",
    "slug": "iol",
    "url": "https://iol.co.za/news/brics/2026-09-01-the-city-gold-built-is-being-hollowed-out-from-below/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "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,…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}