A TERRIBLE tragedy has been unfolding right beneath the feet of Johannesburgers in the past few weeks. It is estimated that 100 miners have been trapped underground.Their bodies are being recovered one by one. To date, 24 bodies have been recovered from a mine near Roodepoort on the West Rand and an unknown number from one near Benoni on the East Rand.A woman was reported as saying last week that she was happy that her 18-year-old brother’s body had been found, but she remained deeply anxious because he went underground with five other family members who had not surfaced. There is little hope now that they will be found alive.In 2010, when 33 miners were trapped underground in Chile, the disaster and subsequent rescue of the miners, who were trapped for two months, became an international event.But for the impoverished miners trapped in shafts in and around Johannesburg there will be no such rescue. Media attention is unlikely to be diverted from the Oscar Pistorius murder case.Zama...
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