locally they are known as sama sama us meaning keep on trying the local zulu language kimberley is situated in south africa's northern cape province and was once the world's diamond capital but the boom is long over many of the mines and supporting businesses closed or downscaled and working as a zama zama is the only work available. to. receive a lot of this land to take us a lot. of this way. to see from mining affected communities to action is trying to help his ngo is fighting to legalize the work of the zama zamost and to lift the country's blanket ban on informal mining though the government seems willing to negotiate it's the mining industry that blocks the move . interested in helping is a muslim us there even decided to pull out of the meeting that we are with them. but of mean that our interests and also the provisional government are indeed they have to pull out of that meeting. not interested they are only interested in profit making. it's estimated that close to one hundred thousand people in south africa depend on artists in a mining generating minerals worth four hundred mill

sama sama us meaning keep on trying the local zulu language kimberley is situated in south africa's northern cape province and was once the world's diamond capital but the boom is long over many of the mines and supporting businesses closed or downscaled and working as a zama zama is the only work available. we. have . received a lot of this land to take us all. of this way. to see from mining affected communities to action is trying to help his n.g.o.s fighting to legalize the work of the zama samas and to lift the country's blanket ban on informal mining though the government seems willing to negotiate it's the mining industry that blocks the move. interested in helping us even decide to pull out of the meeting that we are with them. but of men that are under stress and also the provisional government aren't here to pull out of that meeting they're not interested in us they are only interested in profit making. it's estimated that close to one hundred thousand people in south africa depend on artists in a mining generating minerals worth four hundred million euros per year yet this is only zero point one percent of south africa's mining economy. what we are dealing with the. question of greed versus need so often we see that. in fifty one companies control eighty percent of six hundred billion market and denying people the opportunity to put food on the table even though our legislation requires requires the state to make these the resources available to ordinary south africans.