Illegal miners extorting money from Mogale City dumpsite waste recyclers
Each waste picker forced to hand over R50 a week to Basotho illegal miners who have ‘besieged’ the town’s landfill site
01 September 2024 - 00:00
Each member of a community of informal waste recyclers from Mogale City has to pay a gang of illegal miners R50 a week to operate at the local dumpsite...
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