The South African government is literally preventing food and water from reaching undocumented miners to force them to go back to work https://www.iol.co.za/news/crime-and-courts/south-africans-divided-on-whether-starving-and-dehydrated-illegal-miners-should-be-rescued-cacd2524-a09d-46b8-9dc2-d1ddebcb27a9