Meanwhile, back in Nkaneng, Lonmin's strikers marched around the edge of the settlement, vowing to maintain their fight.
"The old settlements, they are O.K.," said Majeri Mayemba, 20, who lives in a village called Mapulanga, on the edge of the settlement.
At the far edge of the settlement was a pair of old army-green school buses, which had been converted into a makeshift store called the Mountain Mall.
The 42 people who remained at the town were evacuated to the beach while the fire burned up to the edge of the settlement.
His widow, Dalia, still lives on their farm on the edge of the settlement, a few hundred yards from the Nawajaa camp.
They set off, and narrator is able to convince Fidel that they should first visit the torfushki, the seasonal women workers from the peat-packing works, who lived in barracks on the edge of the settlement.
The killers appeared to have randomly picked the house, one of a neat row of identical one-story homes at the edge of the settlement, on a rocky incline overlooking the nearby Palestinian village of Awarta — the proximity underlining the visceral nature of the contest in this area between Jewish settlers and Palestinians over the land.
The bones were buried in ash from cow dung in a thick-walled stone enclosure on the edge of the settlement.
For example, grid infrastructure is currently limited to the longer established parts of Kartong, putting households on the edge of the settlement in a disadvantaged position.
Captain Patrick's force and the local militia spotted them near the southern edge of the settlement.
