For over 120 years, hundreds of thousands of black men from Southern Africa have left their families to dig for gold and produce South Africa's wealth, only to face severe poverty and a devastating epidemic of silicosis and tuberculosis caused by silica dust exposure.
Dying for Gold
For over a century, hundreds of thousands of black men from Southern Africa have been separated from their families, forced to work in gold mines and contribute to South Africa's wealth, despite struggling with poverty to this day.