/ 27 March 2022

‘My child would still be alive’ if that dam at the mine wasn’t there

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26 January 2022. Tsediso Raleholi shows a photograph of her 10-year old daughter Mapula. Mapula drowned in a mine dam on Durban Deep over the Christmas holidays. (James Puttick)
The drowning of 10-year-old Mapula Raleholi is the latest in a series at mining sites in Gauteng

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