Residents of a village in northeastern South Africa, displaced to make way for one of the country’s largest open-pit coal mines in 2007, are suffering from long-term collective trauma, with ongoing stressors “having devastating psychosocial impacts” including suicidality and alienation, a clinical psychologist has found. The residents of the farming village of Somkhele who were … Continue reading ‘I have anger every day’: South African villagers on the mine in their midst