The unsettling qualities of Witwatersrand, its dismembered landscape and fragmented communities, have been etched in the physical and social fabric of Johannesburg since the nineteenth century. Marked by its subterranean river of precious metal, the Witwatersrand contains the footprints of a mining empire whose tentacles reached the entirety of sub-Saharan Africa and integrated even the smallest villages into the mining economy.
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