From Stilfontein to Sabie, the word zama zama has become synonymous with desperation and defiance, embodying tales of forced labour and shattered dreams – caught, as it were, between a rock and the devil.
For those schooled under apartheid’s Bantu education system, the religious studies classrooms often echoed with the biblical story of the Tower of Babel.
It’s a cautionary tale of ambition: men striving to build a staircase to heaven, only to face divine sabotage.
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