‘We’re hungry, there are no jobs’: a South African township’s desperate gold rush

I n a township 30 miles east of Johannesburg, a mechanical digger filled in holes in the dark brown earth, bringing to an end a brief but intense gold rush that saw dozens of fortune seekers descend on what was once a cattle field. The lure of gold has become brighter again in the last year, with (...

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