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Government initially closed a shaft to deprive undocumented miners it called ‘criminal’ of food, water and medicine.
Dozens of local volunteers have stepped up to help rescue what could be thousands of miners feared trapped underground in an abandoned gold mine in the town of Stilfontein in South Africa.
Local campaigners say as many as 4,000 miners entered the gold mine in the town in North West province, and some are feared to now be physically too frail to exit the mine. Some of the miners had initially refused to come up because they were working illegally and were concerned about…
