Miners holed up in abandoned South Africa shaft ‘starving’

South African authorities continue to guard the entrance to an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, where at least hundreds of workers are feared trapped, some reportedly too weak to be rescued [Al Jazeera]

Miners at an abandoned South African mining shaft are starving due to police limiting supplies to force out the hundreds of people believed to be stuck underground, according to a community leader and a miner who was rescued on Friday.

“There’s nothing left for someone to eat, to drink or anything that can make a human being survive. There is nothing left underground for now,” Ayanda Ndabeni, 35, who was hoisted out of the shaft on Friday, said on Sunday.