948. This is South Africa (2/5)
Helicopters are not allowed to fly into the mine, otherwise the air currents carried by the rotors will disperse the smoke and dust in the air, causing a sandstorm in the mine.
Five or six kilometers away from the mine, a clearing was carved out, where helicopters landed, and two off-road vehicles with high ground ground waited quietly.
Li Du looked at the logo, the two off-road vehicles are also Chinese brands.
The lion hunter noticed his gaze and said with a smile: "made-in-China, we have a lot of Chinese goods here, Chinese goods are cheap and durable, who doesn't like them?"
Li Du responded with a smile, which can be regarded as a recognition of Chinese products.
They got off the plane and were about to get into the car, when suddenly a group of black men rushed out.
These people did not know where to hide before, there were old people, there were children, they were thin, and their clothes were shabby.
Running out, they shouted at the lion hunter:
"Sir, give us back our fields!" "We have nothing to eat!" "Don't ruin our home!" "Give me compensation or I'll blow up your mine!"
Li Du was surprised and asked, "What's going on?"
He knowingly asked that there were fields around the mine, and that he must have encroached on these fields and then did not pay compensation.
So, the locals should now regret that the white people who used to open the mines would have occupied their fields, but they would have complied with the rules and given them compensation or jobs to make amends.
The lion hunter lit his cigar and waved his hand leisurely, "One acre will be compensated with 200,000 rands and 1,000 kilograms of grain per year, that's what was agreed at the time, right?"
A woman cried out, "My husband ran away with the money, and my parents took the food, what should I do?"
The lion hunter said coldly: "I have fulfilled the agreement, given you money, and returned you food every year, I have given you money and food, and the rest has nothing to do with me." ”
Hearing this, Li Du stopped talking.
He had said that to put pressure on the lion hunters, who he thought were the violators, the weaker ones, but now it seems that this is not the case.
The people shouted and wailed, but the lion hunter did not care, he waved his hand, and a strong black security guard came up and pushed the people away.
After getting into the car, Li Du and the others drove towards the mine, and the crowd that had come to complain about the demonstration walked backwards, and the convoy happened to follow from behind.
There were a few children in the crowd, who looked about the same age as Victoria and Ivana, and they staggered to the back of the crowd, looking embarrassed.
Sophie was a little unbearable, watching the children go to the roadside river to lie down to drink, she said: "Stop, let's bring some food and water, right? Give it to them, I don't think we need it anyway." ”
The food and water were prepared by Brother Wolf, who thought that in this part of Africa, as long as he went to the wild, he had to prepare enough food.
The lion hunter in the co-pilot said slowly: "Miss Martin, I admire your kindness and brilliance, but if you don't know this, your decision may not be right. ”
Hearing his words, Sophie immediately asked, "Could you please explain in detail?" ”
The lion hunter didn't say much, he said, "You can give them food, and then everything will be understood." ”
The driver stopped the car and Sophie gave food and mineral water to several children.
The children were very polite, and after getting the food and mineral water, they excitedly thanked her, and then quickly gobbled up food and water.
Sophie got into the car, and before she could sit down in the car, the crowd around her rushed up and snatched food and water from the children.
Some of the food even led to a fight, with several women and young people tearing together, and the children, who were the owners of the food and water, could only lie on the ground and cry.
Sophie was stunned, and she muttered, "When I was interning in the Middle East, nothing like this happened, they are still children, how can they be treated like this?"
"This is not the Middle East, this is Africa, this is South Africa, this is Zimbabwe next door, it's a cannibalistic world. The lion hunter laughed, a helpless smile on his face.
The car continued to drive forward, gradually approaching the mine, and some tall mining trucks appeared in their field of vision.
These trucks are very tall, the tires are as tall as a man, the exhaust pipes are frantically emitting black smoke, and the trucks are full of ore, and trucks are being transported out one after another.
A truck drove up head-on, then stopped on the side of the road, and the driver of the car got out of the car, and Li Du was surprised to find that it was a white woman.
He asked, "Are all the workers in your mine white?"
The lion hunter shook his head and said, "I would like to, but there are too few white people who want to come to the mines, and this work is very tiring and the income is small, and they don't want to suffer like this." ”
There were whites and blacks, men and women, and the ratio remained basically one to one.
The lion hunter said that the reason why blacks are used is because some blacks do not demand a lot of wages and are hard-working, but there are always few such blacks, and most of them are lazy and greedy, do not work, and only want to take money.
Like the protesters, the lion hunters gave them a large sum of money, which they could buy a house in a nearby town, give them a thousand kilograms of food a year, and live in peace as long as they went to work.
But these people don't do this, and when they get the money, they either leave the family, or they quickly eat, drink, and enjoy the money, and when they get the food, they exchange it for money and continue to enjoy themselves.
What should I do when I finally have no money and no food? I just come to the mine to make trouble, and if I can get compensation, I will earn it, and it doesn't matter if I don't get compensation, there is no loss anyway.
The lion hunter is very powerful in the local area, but if he is not forced to the head, he will not easily arrange for his subordinates to beat people, let alone kill people, after all, South Africa is not like Zambia, Zimbabwe and the like, there is a rule of law here.
He said: "The black miners here are not at peace, and I have put a lot of effort into appeasing them, and the living and eating conditions in the mines are very good, and you can see it soon." ”
"In addition, I also scared them, saying that if it wasn't for the state's request, I would change all to white people, and I wouldn't use black people, so that they could feel the pressure so that they could work with peace of mind. ”
Once inside the mine, the Hummer stopped and they swapped into several ATVs that could drive in extreme terrain.
The Lion Hunter's Mine has two pits, the pits are spiral-shaped, with the largest ground area and gradually shrinking downwards, and the overall shape is like a funnel.
The pits are determined by the characteristics of the diamonds, which are formed as a product of volcanic activity, which are carried to the surface by volcanic eruptions, most of which are located in a special type of pipe.
Because these pipes were formed by ancient volcanic activity and often exist vertically in the underground world, the miners had to dig as far down as possible to find the diamonds, until the hill turned into a hole.
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