Up to five people are feared dead in SA’s worst tailings dam collapse since the Merriespruit disaster almost three decades ago.

The dam at a long-disused diamond mine in the Free State town of Jagersfontein burst its banks early on Sunday morning, sweeping away nine houses and severely damaging 20 more...

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