Not Forever | VICE | United States

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Inside South Africa’s Abandoned Mining Town

A diamond ghost town faces an uncertain future in the South African desert.

via Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/not-forever-v23n1

One man’s ghost town is another man’s business opportunity. This is the view of Koos van der Merwe, 54, who in 2014 decided to sell his house outside Johannesburg and buy a sports complex in Kleinzee, a defunct mining town high on South Africa’s west coast