A South African horror story: illegal mining stand-off draws to an end – NPR
Rescue workers look on as a cage is lifted from an abandoned gold shaft in Stilfontein on January 16, 2025. LINDA GIVETASH/AFP hide caption toggle caption LINDA GIVETASH/AFP STILFONTEIN, South Africa —They look like the walking dead. Dusty men, skin and hair caked in dirt, skeletal. Some struggle to walk