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There are currently hundreds if not thousands of miners 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. Police, on the other hand, are downplaying the figure, estimating it to be in the hundreds.
“Police are seen guarding the entrance to the abandoned mine, and they said that they are here to ensure that there are no criminal activities,” Mutasa said, noting that activists have been demanding that officers leave the area. However, she explained that in the past, when police have carried out raids on these illegal mines, they’ve “arrested people who have been mining illegally” who “either go to court then go to jail if they are locals, if they are foreigners they get deported”.
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