Women sort coal at the Blaauwbosch mining site. Some of them work as teams with their husbands who do the more dangerous work of digging for coal with pick axes and shovels. It is these people who will be the worst affected by the phasing out of coalPHOTO: lucas ledwaba / mukurukuru media
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