Rethabile Mokwena used to work as a local contractor for Sibanye-Stillwater, the largest individual producer of gold from South Africa. He now makes a meagre living as a broker between local zama zamas and a wealthy Zimbabwean buyer from the city.
He undertakes the laborious and hazardous process of refining gold dust into amalgam with a blowtorch and mercury in a small corrugated zinc shack, or “burn house”, behind his one-bedroom home in a sand-swept township on the edge of Carletonville.
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