{"id":75399,"date":"2025-05-19T19:54:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T19:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75399"},"modified":"2025-05-19T19:54:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T19:54:07","slug":"child-sex-ring-horror-in-south-africas-illegal-mines-witnesses-describe-how-youths-are-sent-underground-and-passed-around-by-miners-to-be-raped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/19\/child-sex-ring-horror-in-south-africas-illegal-mines-witnesses-describe-how-youths-are-sent-underground-and-passed-around-by-miners-to-be-raped\/","title":{"rendered":"Child sex ring horror in South Africa&#8217;s illegal mines: Witnesses describe how youths are sent underground and passed around by miners to be raped"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2025\/05\/19\/12\/98526917-14726521-image-a-17_1747654304337.jpg\" alt=\"Last year a standoff between police and miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine, near the town of Stilfontein, saw authorities cut off any food, water or medical supplies going into the mine in order to force workers to the surface\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Underage workers are being abused in illegal South African gold mines, an investigation has found. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-14726521\/Child-sex-ring-horror-South-Africas-illegal-mines-Witnesses-youths-sent-underground-passed-miners-raped.html\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Underage workers are being abused in illegal South African gold mines, an investigation has found. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75399","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/trapped-miners-SA.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75399"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75400,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75399\/revisions\/75400"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}