A ROCKY HISTORY: The Big Hole diamond mine in Kimberley, South Africa, closed in 1914 and is now the site of a museum on the history of mining in South Africa.
THE LAST
TIME NONHLE MBUTHUMA spoke to Sikhosiphi “Bazooka” Rhadebe, she was sitting in the parking lot of a busy shopping center in the small coastal town of Port Edward, South Africa. For years, she and Rhadebe had been fighting to keep an Australian company from setting up a mine among the sand dunes and scattering of villages on South Africa’s famous Wild Coast, where the two activists had grown up. Rhadebe warned Mbuthuma and Mzamo Dlamini, another anti-mining activist who was in the car that evening, that they were in danger.