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Nozamile Yaphi’s husband returned home from the mines suffering from TB. They started a suvvessful commercvial farming enterprise which eventually collapsed after he died. She now helps out at a local creche while trying to get compensation for her husband’s occupational disease. (Lucas Ledwaba/Mukurukuru Media)
BLACK BODIES

The gold miners’ widows tell of daily battles for survival

Families will never forget how iphika took their fathers, brothers, husbands and breadwinners after they spent the best years of their lives digging up gold in the mines

  • Lucas Ledwaba
15 min read