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Below is a free access to the editorial of the latest South Africa Labour Bulletin and one of our main features.

"Some of the working stations were so scary where in order to move, I had to crawl. Touching one rock could result in a fall of ground because some parts could not be supported, but mining had to continue. The best way was to look at the rocks and crawl frontwards so that you could not touch where there is instability. For me this didn’t work, looking at the rocks was nerve racking to a point where I had to crawl backwards, facing down not up.”

In the previous article Asanda Benya looked at the challenges women face as underground miners. In this story she gives a vivid account of her own experience when she mined underground in a women’s team for two and half months.

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