Rights groups say police used starvation as a weapon to force out illegal miners, resulting in close to 80 deaths.

They are part of a group of so-called zama-zamas who resurfaced from the Magaret and Buffelsfontein shafts this week. ALSO READ: 26 more illegal miners resurfaced from Stilfontein mine this ...

ALSO READ: MACUA heads to court to halt govt from violating rights of zama zamas in Stilfontein Four of them resurfaced from the Magaret shaft and 22 at the Buffelsfontein shaft No. 10.

After weeks working — then later, trapped and starved by violent gang leaders — in the abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, he clung weakly to a makeshift pulley winching him to ...