Authorities have blocked access to food and water to people underground in an attempt to force them out The South African government says it will not send help to hundreds of illegal miners who are believed to be hiding inside an abandoned mine in the country’s North West province. Authorities have cut off food and water to the miners, a day after cabinet minister Khumbudzo Ntshavheni vowed that the police will “smoke them out.”   “We are not sending help to criminals. We are going to smoke