Several herders have their hands full preventing cattle from straying onto the road separating Richards Bay Minerals’ (RBM) Zulti North mining operations and its titanium smelting operation in northern KwaZulu-Natal.

These might not be fertile grazing lands, but perhaps the cows know how rich these sands are as they have been at the centre of fierce clashes between community leaders as well as local extortionists, claiming lives and deepening wounds...

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