South Africa: Community Fails to Gain From Mine Development

Johannesburg — THE development that has come to the Limpopo town of Burgersfort over the past few years lies like a scar across the Bushveld.

This once sleepy agricultural village is being transformed into a mining town but most people living in the greater Tubatse municipal area are not sharing in the wealth or in the enthusiasm for the change.

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