South Africa: Coal Miner Community Shows the Beautiful Side of SA

18 January 2019

It was a dismal Christmas for thousands of coal miners in Mpumalanga when the formerly Gupta-owned coal mines of Optimum and Koornfontein, now under business rescue, stopped paying workers and contractors in October last year. It was the same story for workers at other nearby mines: Woestaleen, Boschmans, Klipbank, Setemba and Sandile.

In December a group of determined women, all of them employees of the nearby coal mines, decided to do something about it.

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