Extortion ‘mafia’ hits South Africa’s $55 billion mining sector

A threatening letter, a derailed train, blocked roads, burned vehicles, workers locked up. That’s what some of the world’s biggest mining companies say they’re battling in South Africa: Extortion. Covid plunged Africa’s most-industrialized country — home to the biggest deposits of metals ranging from platinum to chrome and manganese — into the deepest economic contraction…

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