Merriespruit was South Africa’s worst dam tailings disaster — 17 people were killed and 80 houses destroyed — but such events are rare, according to Mariette Liefferink, the chief executive of the Federation for a Sustainable Environment. But, since 2015, research of all serious failures of tailing storage facilities (TSF) around the world has shown…

The Guardian — Much of the waste from 600 abandoned mines around South Africa’s largest city is piled high next to residential communities – most of which are poor and black.