Horror of South African miners' deaths

By Mpho Lakaje

Around a mortuary in Thabong, in South Africa's Free State Province, the families of illegal miners, missing underground, wait to see if they can identify their relatives' bodies.

They cover their faces to stop the thick stench of decomposing body parts from overwhelming them.

The authorities call out names of identified men so their relatives, some had come from Mozambique or Lesotho, could take their bodies home.

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