Unstable Ground: The Lives, Deaths, and Afterlives of Gold in South Africa

by Rosalind C. Morris

What has gold done to people? What has it made them do? The Witwatersrand in South Africa, once home to the world's richest goldfields, is today scattered with abandoned mines into which informal miners known as zama zamas venture in an illicit--often deadly--search for ore. Based on field research conducted across more than twenty-five years around these mines, Unstable Ground reveals the worlds that gold made possible--and gold's profound...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231216122
• ISBN13: 9780231216128
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 456 Pages