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    THE DAY ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE

    Sep 30, 2022 4 minutes
    BY JANA MARX
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    IT’S barely 6am in the Free State town of Jagersfontein when a deep rumbling sound wakes Matshediso Sesing. She struggles to identify the noise. A truck, perhaps? Surely not this early on a Sunday morning? She pulls on her dressing gown and goes outside. At first nothing seems amiss in the old mineworkers’ neighbourhood of Charlesville.

    But then she sees it: a stream of water flowing towards the valley near her home. She doesn’t even need to look up to the dam wall about 300 metres away to know where the water is coming from.

    “Something’s wrong with the mine,” the

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