Child exploitation uncovered in illegal mines in South Africa | BBC News
Warning: This story contains details that some people may find distressing.
A BBC investigation has uncovered evidence that children as young as 15 are being trafficked into illegal mines and sexually abused across South Africa.
Several eye witnesses have described repeated instances of sexual abuse of children in at least three illegal mines.
South Africa’s illegal mining industry made global headlines last year following a standoff between police and miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in the North West Province.
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lol I like how South Africa is currently trending
Ngithi angihleke
South Africa is such a savage country ๐ข
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itโs one of those
Sad and horrific.Does the Bbc agree that the butcher of 18000 children in Gaza is savagery and barbaric ?
Mining for the west dont forget
This was reported by South African media months ago
What???????…..good grief.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OCqFvKQKVo
Mind you legally enforced care homes in the UK are doing the same thing, but yeah, letโs worry about South Africa๐
You have to be this high to receive a salary:
Raises hand higher than the children ๐ ๐
Which company finances these mines and which company has taken the mineral?
Mind Begs the Question:
โช๏ธPharoah slaughtered Children labeling them – Future Threat
โช๏ธIf a Semitic-State slaughter Children labeling them – Future Terrorists
โช๏ธJewish-State or Pharonic-State?
๐ข
Not that it matters or makes matter better, they are not South Africans but illegal immigrants from neighbouring countries. A sad situation overall, no silver lining here at all.
Genocide now this? Why is the image of Mzansi being tarnished like this, why now exactly?
Yet these are not the people who were offered asylum here in the US from South Africa, who are thought of as needy and persecuted enough to warrant special consideration and different home.
Elon
No mention of a government task force to identify the mechanisms by which and those at the top responsible for trafficking these children into multiple forms of abuse and neglect? The government needs to be held accountable on this. Deplorable.
Drip clit. PBS is your crutch.
But the media says rainbow nation
How am I not surprised… but wait until you see the carnage and slavery carried by wagner group on all african countries they are involved
Propaganda, this just the way for the west to attack afric. It's funny how this came out after trump said through genocide in south africa. Why is the british company even in south africa. I don't believe the west media propaganda. This is completely fake news, just like all the news that trump and his affiliates put out
America and israel they are only ones who benefiting from SAn mine,, so even abandoned mine owned by the them with cheap labour from Zimbabwe Nigerian Malawi Lesotho….. I wish one day American people wake up and what trump and Musk is not humanity in SA
any investigation done for pakistani grooming gangs in UK ? It can also be distressing, clean your house before impressing streets !!
Oh but last week we were believing the SA government and not NGOs about the refugees. Make up your mind BBC
This is the same nation that accuses Israel of apartheidโฆ hilarious buffoonery
I told you so. There are no standard contracts on those mines from any supermajors.
I am appalled; evil does not have any limits.
Glad that Trump accepted those South African peasant refugees
No this must be the white farmers fault or Apartheid wait colonialism for sure! Socialism and communism can not be blamed for this in any shape way or form. Wonder if the ANC has a hand in this?
These are not legal mines and many of the perpetrators (and victims unfortunately) are illegal immigrants in South Africa, which seems to have lost its battle with illegal immigration…
Africans making slaves of their own in 2025.
The BBC asked for a response for police and law enforcement in South Africa. Do t expect anything to be done. Those people might be refugees if you think about it. South Africa wonโt protect those children. They donโt protect their own citizens.
First of all the narrative here is wrong, those are illegal miners(most of them illegal immigrates) that illegally entered the mine and the cops tried flushing them out of the mine but most of them decided to stay and some died. Other eventually got out of the mine and got arrested
Seems the BBC just found out something the rest of the world knew already๐
Oh so NOW you start giving a dam. Only after Trump put a spot light on ONE of the issues in South Africa. This story is unfortunately old news, itโs been going on for years.
Very sad!…The government of SA denying the miners basic essentials like water food and drugs to force them out of the mines is a crime against humanity!…How do minors work in the mines without the knowledge of the state?…. There's more than meet the eyes here!
This has been going on for years !!!
๋ํ๋ฏผ๊ตญ ์กฐํญ๊ณผ ์ธ๊ณ๋ค๋ฅธ๋๋ผ ์กฐํญ ์ฐํฉํด์ ์ธ๊ณ๋ฅผ ์ก๊ณ ์๋ค ์ธ๊ณ๊ฐ ๋ค ๋ฒ์ฃ์๋ค์ ์์ ๋์๋๊ณ ์๋๊ฒ์ด๋ค ์ด๋ค์ด ์ข์ ์๋๋ก ์ฌ๋๋ค์ ์ ๋ ํ์ง๋ง ๊ทธ๋ค์์ ๋ฒ์ด์ง๋ ์ผ์ ์ ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ํด์ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ ํ๋ ๊ฒฝ์ฐ๊ฐ ํ๋ฐ์ด๋ค ์ธ๊ณ๋ฅผ ์ ๋ นํ ์ด์ ๊ฐ ์๋๋ฐ ๋ฒ์ฃ์๋ค ์์ฃฝ์ด๋ฉด ์์ฉ์๋๋ฐ ์ง๋ค์ด ๊ฐ๊ณ ๋ ์๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋ชปํ๊ฒ ํ๊ฒ์ธ๋ฐ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ ํ๋ ค๋๊น ๋ฌธ์ ์ธ๊ฒ์ด๋ค
๋ฌธ์ ๋ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ๊ฐ ์๋๋ฐ๋ ๋ง์ด ์๋๋ค๋ฉด์ ์๊ธฐํธ์ธ ๋ฒ์ฃ์๋ค์ ๋ฐฐ์ ์ํจ๋ค ์ง๊ฐ ์ฒ๋ฆฌํ๋ค๊ณ ํ๊ณ ์ง๋ค ๋ฒ์ฃ์ฎ์ฌ์๋ ์ ๋ค ๋ณดํธํ๊ธฐ์ํด์ ์ฆ์ธ๊ณผ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ฒ๋ฆฌํด์ ์ด์ธํ๊ณ ์ฆ๊ฑฐ์ธ๋ฉธํด ์จ๊ฒ์ด 10๋ ์ด๋ค ๋ฒ์ฃ์๋ค ์ฃฝ์ด๋ฉด ์๊ธฐ๋ค๋ ์ฃฝ์ผ๋๊น ๋ชป์ฃฝ์ด๊ฒ๋ ๋ฐฐ์ ํ๋ ์ผ๋ก ๋ชฐ์๊ฐ๋๊ฒ์ด๋ค
Very distressing, same as the sexually exploited English Girls by the Pakistani rapist gangs
This is common though out all of Africa
South Africa is just a big disaster ๐ข especially with a failing government. This is my opinion on the matter.
BBC news keeping south Africans up to date with matters that south Africans never heard of….
If the world is looking for a reason toe "save" south Africans why don't they investigate business practices of there's British companies operating down here