Survivor tells how trapped miners ate human flesh and cockroaches to survive - ProtectionWeb

Survivor tells how trapped miners ate human flesh and cockroaches to survive - ProtectionWeb

Zama zama miner Patrick Ntsokolo saw colleagues eating cockroaches and even dead bodies underground after police from Operation Vala Umgodi blocked deliveries to illegal miners at Stilfontein. He hopes to tell his story to the SAHRC. Ntsokolo, a 40-year-old father of six children, survived underground for 18 days with no food except scraps of expired goods. He said he would be willing to testify during upcoming hearings of the SAHRC, but had not…