Mining communities push for constitutional justice as Parliament delays accountability
Daily Maverick | 12.08.2026 18:30
There is a particular kind of waiting that poor people know, a waiting that is not measured by clocks or calendars because it settles into the body and becomes part of the ordinary architecture of life: waiting for water, for electricity, for a clinic, for compensation, for land, for rehabilitation, for justice, or simply for someone in authority to acknowledge that the suffering carried quietly for years is neither inevitable nor deserved.
