Apartheid South Africa's infrastructures distilled systemic and epistemic racism into their purest forms, weaving them into the fabric of everyday life. The opening chapter builds on insights by philosopher Charles Mills to argue that apartheid laid bare the profoundly technopolitical character of the racial contract. Nowhere is this more visible than in the mining industry that birthed Johannesburg. South African mining epitomized racial capitalism (a concept that first took root among anti-apartheid activists) and its central role in the Anthropocene. The relentless pursuit of profit and privilege produces residual governance: the deadly trifecta composed of the governance of waste and discards; minimalist governance that uses simplification, ignorance, and delay as core tactics; and governance that treats people and places as waste and wastelands.