South Africa's informal miners fight for their future in coal's twilight
Growing up, Cyprial dreamed of being a lawyer. Instead, he now spends his days underground, swinging a pickaxe against rock in a pitch-black illegal mine that snakes for kilometres beneath South Africa's coal heartland. The rumbling of wheelbarrows echoed down the narrow tunnels where he and dozens of other men had been mining since dawn. Some chipped away at the rock face, their dim hea
