How an odd vision sparked South Africa’s latest zama zama illegal gold mining rush

A farm lying beside tailings from historical gold mines near Johannesburg has joined the legion of illegal mining sites in South Africa in an unusual way. It began with a traditional healer’s dream of gold buried beneath a neighbour’s cattle...

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