South African police and illegal miners stand-off draws to a grisly 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 and collapse. They blink like