The Stilfontein Mine Stand-off in South Africa

The Stilfontein Mine Stand-off in South Africa: What the Main-stream Media Leaves Out

If your information about the stand-off at South Africa's Stilfontein Mine is based primarily on main-stream media accounts, you are almost certainly misinformed.  A more comprehensive understanding would include the role of corporate colonialism, expose the systemic criminalization and dispossession of artisanal miners, and how the global  neoliberal economic developemt model is resulting in the development of under-development. 

 

 

 

Having worked with a number of artisanal miners in Colombia in their struggle against dispossession and displacement to make way for foreign corporate mining interests, I was pretty sure there was far more to the Stilfontein story than mainstream media was telling us. I had to brow-beat Perplexity AI into providing more than superficial and misleading information,  and eventually got it to provide a comprehensive  account that confirmed my suspicions.  It also provided clickable links to its research. Click on them to check out its sources for yourself. Click here to read my full exchange with Perplexity AI. The exchange may also provide you with an example of how you can get past its initial superficial responses to something actually use. You will also see why I've called this blog "Transcending the Maze: Paradigm Shifts and Deduction Deconstruction".