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Time running out: Relatives are desperately trying to rescue the scores of illegal artisanal miners who became trapped when a mine shaft in Krugersdorp was flooded. Photo: Fani Mahuntsi/Getty Images

‘I’m fighting for my sons’ lives,’ says father of trapped illegal miners in Krugersdorp

The relatives of illegal artisanal miners who are trapped underground in in a flooded mine shaft say that the authorities have failed to help them

When there is mine waste near residential areas, communities in the vicinity are always negatively affected. Photo supplied

The hazardous legacy of Krugersdorp’s abandoned mines

Experts say the government must fund acid mine drainage clean-ups to protect the right of citizens to a healthy environment and clean water

Environmental watchdog says ‘direct link’ exists between government’s failure to enforce non-compliance against mining company and gang rape incident.

How an abandoned mine dump became a crime scene

Environmental watchdog says ‘direct link’ exists between government’s failure to enforce non-compliance against mining company and gang rape incident

Kagiso residents have turned violent against illegal miners.

Kagiso residents turn violent, assault people accused of illegal mining, crime

One person was killed, while others were stripped naked and beaten by groups, who also barricaded roads and searched abandoned mines

Scenes of destruction: Thousands of shops and businesses were looted following a wave of violent protest in July 2021. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Tembisa protests, Krugersdorp anger raise fears of new wave of violence

The spectre of the July 2021 riots looms large over the events in Gauteng of the last few days, and, as always, xenophobia is disgruntled South Africa’s faithful companion

Righteous depravity: A still from the new Showmax series ‘Devilsdorp’, a documentary about the Electus Per Deus murder cult

Screen Grab: The devil is in the retail in Krugersdorp

In the true crime docuseries “Devilsdorp”, Cecilia Steyn emerges as an entrepreneur of depravity who monetised white South Africa’s legacy of moral panic about Satanism

Family affair: Hugh Tracey recording a Chopi ensemble in Mbanguzi village, Chopiland, Mozambique, in 1948. (ILAM Archive and Jonathon Rees)
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A bridge between cultures

The Tracey family has, for three generations, ensured the sounds of Africa are not forgotten

This is the story of Thandi Modise in the Weekly Mail March 23 to 30 1989 edition.

Thandi Modise, the knitting needles guerrilla

The first in a two-part series by Thami Mkhwanazi. This week: Life in the camps

Traditional leaders

Agri SA lambasts police for inaccurate reporting on farm worker murder

Agri SA lashed out at the police for reporting inaccurate details to the media around the brutal shooting of a farm worker in Krugersdorp.

The farmer fled the scene

Worker shot dead by farm owner for allegedly stealing tractor

Details of the alleged murder were still vague.

A place called home

White squatters are refusing to be relocated from a caravan park by the Mogale City council. Monako Dibetle reports.

Sword-killing case transferred to Jo’burg High Court

The case of the boy who allegedly killed a fellow pupil with a sword was on Wednesday transferred to the Johannesburg High Court for trial.

Sword-killing case postponed to next year

Cutting a lone figure in court on Tuesday, alleged sword killer Morne Harmse smiled only when his family waved at him from the public gallery.

School sword killing: Accused fit to stand trial

The 18-year-old pupil who allegedly killed a fellow schoolboy with a sword was declared fit to stand trial by a court on Friday.

Ghost told Harmse to become a satanist, court hears

A pupil who is accused of killing a fellow schoolboy with a sword believes he was told by a ghost to become a satanist, a court heard on Wednesday.

Family, friends bid farewell to slain schoolboy

Hundreds of mourners bid farewell to Jacques Pretorius on Friday, the boy who died in a sword attack at a Krugersdorp high school earlier this week.

Sword wielder ‘was a victim of bullying’

The parents of Morne Harmse, accused of stabbing a fellow pupil to death with a sword, said that their son was a victim of bullying.

Krugersdorp school rocked by ‘Satanic’ killing

In an apparent Satanic ritual, a Krugersdorp matriculant arrived at school on Monday with several swords and allegedly killed a fellow pupil.

Sword-wielding schoolboy kills fellow pupil

A matric boy stabbed a fellow pupil to death with a sword at a high school in Krugersdorp on Monday morning, Johannesburg police said.

Bail hearing postponed for Richter murder accused

The bail applications of five people accused of murdering and robbing conservationist Franz Richter were postponed due to a power failure at the Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court on…