South Africa cuts supplies to thousands of illegal miners hiding underground
An estimated 4,000 illegal gold miners are hiding underground in South Africa after the government cut off food and water in an effort to "smoke them out" and arrest them. The miners have been in a mineshaft in Stilfontein, in the North West province, for about a month.
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4,000 miners cut off from supplies in underground standoff over illegal mining in South AfricaJohannesburg — More than 4,000 miners locked in a standoff with South African authorities over illegal mining were ...
Community members have reportedly volunteered to go underground in an attempt to rescue the trapped illegal miners.
South African authorities are engaged in a standoff with hundreds of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's ...
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