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Broke and broken - The shameful legacy of gold mining in South Africa (Paperback)
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Broke and broken - The shameful legacy of gold mining in South Africa (Paperback)
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In 1889 a gold rush broke out on the Witwatersrand, changing South
Africa’s history forever. More than 130 years later the mining
industry is still one of the biggest drivers of the economy but
this was at the expense of those who worked underground. Broke
& Broken is the story of the thousands of men from South Africa
and beyond its borders who paid with their lives for generations.
These are men who left their homes as healthy, ambitious youngsters
and returned broke, broken and bitter; victims of the shameful
legacy of gold mining. The book seeks to say the names of the
mineworkers who, through their sweat, blood and tears, have built
this country’s economy, because their own stories and their own
spirits need to be magnified. The precious stone they spent most of
their lives digging brought no shine to their lives – only pain,
tears and death. #SayTheirNames, remembering some of the men eaten,
chewed and spat out by the gold mines: Mokete Bokako has a speech
defect which was allegedly caused by complications from silicosis.
He worked on South Africa’s gold mines for many years before he was
retrenched. He now lives alone in poverty in Roma, Lesotho; Alloys
Mncedi Msuthu of Ramafole in the Eastern Cape suffers from
silicosis. He was paid R76 000 after he was declared medically
incapacitated, but that money was too little to sustain him and his
family and to cover medical costs. He now struggles to survive;
Mthobeli Gangatha was told to ‘go home and die’ in 2001, when he
was 37 years. He now owns a small grocery store in Nkunzimbini
village where he comes from; Zwelendaba Mgidi was 23 years old when
he left his village of Kwabhala near Flagstaff. He returned home in
2011, aged 52. He was diagnosed with silicosis in 2008, aged 48.
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