Africa, Economy & Trade, Featured, Headlines, Labour, TerraViva United Nations Labour Artisanal miners at work. Credit: SuppliedJOHANNESBURG, Jan 23 2023 (IPS) – Mining towns across South Africa have become hostage to a booming but bloody illegal mining economy. Wealthy kingpins, mainly from neighbouring Lesotho, run criminal syndicates and recruit poverty-stricken workers to go into disused…

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