"How Chinese migration to the world's goldfields upended global power and economics and forged modern conceptions of race. In roughly five decades, between 1848 and 1899, more gold was removed from the earth than had been mined in the 3,000 preceding years. But friction between Chinese and white...

"In October 2009, Aurora Empowerment Systems a black-owned, politically connected business, made a bid to rescue the liquidated Pamodzi Gold mines. Former president Jacob Zuma's nephew Khulubuse Zuma, his lawyer Michael Hulley and Nelson Mandela's grandson Zondwa Mandela, were listed as...