South Africa: Battle Over Mining Rights in Remote Eastern Cape Villages

19 February 2018

Resident Zenzele Gampe says a battle over mining the land has divided his community. "We are no longer the community we were and never will be the same. Now some people can't even visit each other because we have become enemies."

"If a person who is against the mine has a funeral, those who want the mine won't come and vice versa. Before it was never like that."

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