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The most shocking for Jonathan, who survived the six debilitating months who lived and worked underground in an abandoned South African gold mine was a abuse that was witnessed by the children.

Some of them recruit for cheap work, but others are brought specifically for sex, companies say.

Jonathan, who, in the late 20’s, moved to South Africa from a neighboring country, promising to make easy money by working in one of dozens of non -working mines, closed by transnational companies as they were no longer commercially viable.

We defend its complete identity because it is afraid of repression from vicious criminal groups that manage an illegal mining industry for talking to the media.

The details of what the youth went, although after the death of dozens of illegal miners near the city of Stilfontein at the end of last year, when the mine was blocked by the police.

Jonathan describes the warmth, long hours and limited food and sleep capacity that took over his body.

But lasting memory is what happened to the minors in the shaft where he worked.

“I used to see these children in the teenagers actually 15, 17-year-olds.

“Others sometimes used them. It was a little scared and I wasn’t comfortable with it.”

He said they were raped by adult miners who promised to give them the gold they found in exchange for sex.

“If this child is desperate for money, he risks.”

Jonathan describes how the children will approach the defense miners, but “there will be conditions in this team.”

Sex was also used as a punishment when the teenagers were unable to complete the task for their team.

Jonathan says the kids in the mine where he worked were foreign and did not understand what they were.

Researcher and Mining Mahotla Sundi Mahotel Support supports this.

He says that criminal groups are specifically aimed at work in illegal mines across South Africa.

Many of them are abducted from neighboring countries and traded. They are reflected in the unjustified promises to find their employment in the official mining area.

“Their passports were confiscated when they enter South Africa … It is common knowledge that these young boys are abused,” says Mr. Sunchi.

The BBC talked to the miners who worked at least in the other two illegal mines who told us that they saw children undergoing hard in the mine where they work.

TSHEPO, not his real name, says that elderly men make young boys sex with them underground.

“In some cases, they did it for the money. Some of them recruit solely for this purpose, from the financial incentives that will come with practice, perhaps to trade sex underground.”

He adds that the abuse has affected the children.

“They change their behavior and have trouble with confidence. They don’t want you to approach them because they believe that no one can trust anyone anymore.”

The illegal mining industry South Africa spoke with global headlines last year after the police and miners at the Bufffontin mine, near Stilfontein, in the northwest province.

Authorities tried to stop illegal mining, which the government stated that last year the government cost South Africa’s economy of 3.2 billion dollars (2.6 billion pounds).

In December 2023, they launched an operation called Vala Umgodi, or compacted a hole, promising to take a tough position on the gangs.

As part of the operation, police limited the amount of food and water that went down Stylfontein, as one minister expressed, “smoke” illegal miners. Officials said the men refused to go out to be arrest.

Soon the footage began to appear from the inside of the mine, showing dozens of exhausted men who are asked to escape, as well as rows of body bags. In the end, the court ordered the authorities to save men.

Among those who were brought up were many who said they were minors, but as a number of them were migrants without documents confirming how many years they had, the authorities conducted medical tests to get an assessment.

Thanks to this, the Social Development Department (DSD) confirmed that 31 stylfontein was recognized as children. All of them were citizens of Mozambikan, and in November 27 were repatriated.

South Africa helped to keep some interviews between minors and rescue workers.

“They went through the injury because some of them also saw that others are used sexy,” says the BBC CEO of Hug XABA charity.

“Just the feeling that they may not get out of there, destroyed these children mentally.

“Adult miners start with them, acting, acting the way they love.”

He says that the children were forced to commit sexual actions on adults, and then they were raped, days after day.

“You will find that the adults will have three -four ones they do the same.”

Ms Xaba says gangs in mining are recruiting children because they are easier to manipulate and cheaper.

“Children do not understand when you say,” I will pay you 20 rend ($ 1; £ 0.80). “Sometimes adults refuse to work, but children do not have a choice.

In addition to financing operation, she says there are gangs that recruit children specifically for sex.

Many illegal miners spend months underground, rarely rising to the surface. Markets arise underground to provide them with everything they need.

“Most children are traded to be used as sex.

The BBC asked the police and the DSD whether anyone would be charged with allegations of sexual abuse. They did not respond to our requests.

A source working on Stilfontein’s miners said that many children did not want to testify.

Meanwhile, the illegal mining industry continues to bloom.

And if approximately 6000 vacancies that can be available for study, it’s a business that is unlikely to end soon, leaving thousands of vulnerable children.