{"id":204928,"date":"2025-08-18T15:54:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambiques-illegal-miners-reap-risky-rewards-but-land-suffers\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T15:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T13:54:09","slug":"mozambiques-illegal-miners-reap-risky-rewards-but-land-suffers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambiques-illegal-miners-reap-risky-rewards-but-land-suffers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique&#8217;s Illegal Miners Reap Risky Rewards but Land Suffers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\"><em>What&#8217;s the context?<\/em> <em>In Mozambique&#8217;s Manica, illegal miners take huge risks while farmers grapple with mercury in the soil and polluted water.<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Illegal miners flock to Mozambique&#8217;s Manica to seek gold<\/li>\n<li>Miners lack protection but say risks are worth reward<\/li>\n<li>Mining activities pollute rivers and soil, farmers say<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">MANICA, Mozambique &#8211; Digging for gold and jewels is backbreaking and dangerous work, carried out without the most basic protective equipment, and it is illegal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">But for the barefoot miners in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508180164.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the context? In Mozambique&#8217;s Manica, illegal miners take huge risks while farmers grapple with mercury in the soil and polluted water. Illegal miners flock to Mozambique&#8217;s Manica to seek gold Miners lack protection but say risks are worth reward Mining activities pollute rivers and soil, farmers say MANICA, Mozambique &#8211; Digging for gold and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[654],"tags":[258,256,6918,6122,13332,682,10439,257,17194,13261,10878,254,9083],"class_list":["post-204928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-illegal","tag-land","tag-miners","tag-mozambique-news","tag-mozambiques","tag-news","tag-reap","tag-rewards","tag-risky","tag-south-africa-today","tag-suffers"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}