South Africa agrees to rescue illegal miners sealed for weeks underground
10 hours ago
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- 10 hours ago
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Three months after South Africa sealed most exits at a disused mine near Johannesburg in a crackdown on illegal miners, it has now agreed to rescue hundreds trapped underground — many now believed too weak to come out on their own.
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