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PHALABORWA, South Africa – Two enormous grey-white dunes of phosphogypsum tower over the old phosphate plant here in Limpopo province, relics of decades of mining that once fed fertilizer plants across the region. Today, those same waste stacks hold something far more valuable: 35 million tons of material rich in rare earth elements, the invisible […]
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Roelf Meyer remembers what it felt like to walk into a room where the other side did not trust you. In the early 1990s, he was the face of a crumbling government — a white Afrikaner minister sent to negotiate the end of the system his own party had built. His counterpart was Cyril Ramaphosa, […]
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