WATCH: Why Lesotho zama zamas risk lives to find gold in SA's abandoned mines
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WATCH: Why Lesotho zama zamas risk lives to find gold in SA's abandoned mines
In the wake of a methane gas explosion that claimed the lives of 31 people at a decommissioned mining shaft near Welkom in South Africa, a zama zama from Lesotho explains the desperation that drove him to look for gold underground.
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🇿🇦 ⛏️ "Where there's gold...always blood is there, because it's money." Every day they leave for work, they have no idea whether they will return home alive. They are Zama Zamas - those who risk everything to go deep underground in South Africa’s dangerous disused gold mines to scratch a living. #BBCAfricaEye | BBC News Africa
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