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Poverty in the midst of plenty.(News)
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Limpopo is one of the poorest provinces in the country. More than one in three adults are looking for work, according to official statistics.
And if the unemployed who have given up looking for work are included, the number is even higher.
Yet Limpopo is also a major producer of platinum and is the home of the huge Waterberg coal fields.
The high price of platinum has attracted plenty of new mining companies to the province.
But so far very little of the income stream from mining has filtered down to the population.
In this respect, Limpopo is a microcosm of ...
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