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Hundreds of people face eviction from abandoned Sibanye-Stillwater mining village

Families, among them former mine workers, occupied houses in Waterpan Village seven years ago

Text by Jan Bornman. Photos by Ihsaan Haffejee
Sibusiso Khumalo from the West End Mining and Rehabilitation Trust walking over the rubble of a home that was demolished at the Waterpan Village.

Sibusiso Khumalo from the West End Mining and Rehabilitation Trust walking over the rubble of a home that was demolished at the Waterpan Village. | Credits: Ihsaan Haffejee

Busisiwe Makhubo fears for her and her child's future amid threats of being evicted from the house they have been living in for seven years in Waterpan Village, near Westonaria on Johannesburg's West Rand....

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