Illegal miners, who have been fighting to get mining permits, risk arrest and even death in confrontations between the police and security firms
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Children in the Northern Cape leave school to dig for the gemstones, which, for many households, is a way of survival
The 90 detainees are among 110 people held by police at abandoned mining sites in the Namakwa district.