⚠️ Warning: This story contains details that some readers may find distressing. Eyewitnesses and human rights groups have told the BBC that child sexual abuse is widespread in South Africa’s illegal mining sector. Multiple witnesses described repeated incidents of abuse involving children at illegal mines - including in Stilfontein, where a months-long stand-off between illegal miners and police ended with the deaths of at least 78 men. Charities and illegal miners say hundreds of children are trafficked into South Africa each year from neighboring countries. Some are as young as 15, forced to work under harsh conditions - and many suffer sexual abuse by adult miners. | BBC News Africa