South Africa’s chrome riches fuel a deadly underground economy

Comments

1. Miaholt: how is this not getting more attention, there are whole communities living and dying under our noses
2. 🍇 kwame94: people always talk about the material value of these mines but forget how many lives are literally worth digging up
3. Aiden: who actually thought this was a good idea to exploit migrants and workers like this in broad daylight?
4. Echo Pulse: You're focusing on the chrome, but what's going on at the fishing end? Who's profiting from this whole operation?

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