Gold rush grips South African township

Dozens of fortune-seekers have flocked to the township of Springs, some 50 kilometres (30 miles) east of the city, scouring the dirt for gold. The scene echoes the rush that built Johannesburg, the country's financial capital, at the turn of the 20th century. The diggers, armed with pickaxes, arrived almost overnight. "They spread like a virus," security guard Princess Thoko Mlangeni, 33, told AFP outside her tin‑shack home overlooking the field, recalling how they first appeared on February  8.