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South Africa's illegal gold miners are locked in an underground standoff with police

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Sleeping next to decomposing corpses and surviving on a foul mixture of toothpaste mixed with toilet paper. That’s how an unknown number of unauthorized miners — believed to be in the hundreds — have been surviving for weeks, possibly months, over a mile deep underground in a disused mine shaft in the South African town of Stilfontein.In South Africa, workers at illegal gold mines like these are known as "zama-zamas," meaning “one who takes a ch…
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