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Stimela: Gold miners, circa 1910. Many of them were, for years, recruited in Mozambique and made the trip to South Africa by train. (FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

CHARLES VAN ONSELEN

Moz miners’ misery unveiled

Migrant workers faced many depredations on their railway trips to and from Mozambique

Shaun De Waal