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This article originally appeared on 14 March 2026  in Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2026/3/14/kill-the-people-how-men-were-left-to-starve-in-a-south-african-gold-mine Ayanda Ndabeni watched the faint glow from his headlamp fight the vast darkness 1,500 metres (4,920 feet) below ground. His miner’s lamp had lasted for more than a week after he was lowered down into the shaft of the gold mine. But now […]

This article originally appeared on 8 March 2026  in The Daily Maverick. Their presence is as silent as bone, inhabiting a language of extreme quiet — a purity of existence beyond our perception. Human history roars and explodes all around us at this moment. The skylines of cities in the Middle East are outlined against