How waste from the mining industry has perpetuated apartheid-like policies in South Africa

While apartheid—South Africa’s brutal racial segregation laws of the 20th century—officially came to an end in the early 1990s, its harmful effects persist today, says Stanford historian Gabrielle Hecht in her new book, “Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures.”

“You can see apartheid from space,” Hecht bluntly states in the book’s opening…