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More than 150 illegal miners have been rescued from an abandoned mine in South Africa's eastern Mpumalanga province.

But the miners themselves live even further out, in shacks made of wood and canvas, surrounded by snakes and jaguars, and in total darkness once the generator is switched off.

He owns an entire city block in Johannesburg, where he plans to build housing for the miners.

As local boosters tell the story, a miner and clown-collector named Clarence David was killed in 1911 in a mining accident and buried in the cemetery.

"From being a miner at 15 years of age in Pontarddulais, then I was a bus conductor and a postman and then went on to work in insurance," Griffiths once recalled.