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Blyvoor mine joins the Aurora strip club

The troubled mine has closed, leaving behind a toxic legacy that nobody is prepared to deal with as liquidators try to cover debts before restitution.

Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab militants display the bodies of four ‘enemy’ soldiers killed in combat in Kismayo

Savagery governs Wild West mine

A father despairs of ever finding his son’s killers as ruthless security guards continue to take the law – and lives – into their own hands.

The outcome of the ANC’s long-awaited KwaZulu-Natal conference was a win for the Thuma Mina crowd. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Editorial: Police failings mock Constitution

A spate of murders, assaults, rapes and robberies at Blyvoor and in the surrounding communities has gone unprosecuted and unpunished.

Aurora meets Marikana at bloody Blyvoor

Illegal miners are reportedly being killed without consequence amid evidence of mine-stripping.

Wrangling leaves miners in limbo

Thousands of jobless Blyvoor miners struggling to make ends meet are desperate to get back to work

Neither DRDGold nor Village Main Reef will accept liability for Blyvoor’s environmental impact.

Gold mines now dust as jobs vanish

Gold’s decline has resulted in thousands of job losses and closed mines like Blyvoorzicht, which has left behind miners who can only cling to hope.

In the dumps: Local José 
de Gouveia reveals 
the extent of the dirt 
around the periphery of 
the mine’s slimes dam. 
Residents are blaming the unremediated dumps for their health 
problems.

Defunct mine gets up Blyvooruitzicht’s nose

Blyvooruitzicht’s residents have nowhere to turn while choking on dust from a slimes dam that belongs to the stricken gold mine.