Mintek embraces delicate task of closing mine shafts
Engineers have closed 135 holes
At the entrance of Zamimpilo informal settlement in Riverlea, Johannesburg, lies a big concrete slab sealing a 1,2km deep hole underneath.
Next to it children are playing, while residents walk by, oblivious of the danger the slab has saved them from...
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