The dark face of South Africa's illegal mining

In a recent 'mining indaba', a conference of mining interests held annually, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa spelt out the key sector's major issues, power being by far the leading problem of the day, but with the perennial issue of "illegal mining" close on the power shortage's heels, as a serious challenge for the sector.

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