South Africa: 87 Dead In Abandoned Gold Mine After Months-Long Rescue Ops; Outrage Over Police Handling
Authorities faced growing anger and a possible investigation over their initial refusal to help the miners and instead “smoke ...
Hundreds of Miners Were Trapped for Months —Until an Extraordinary Two-Man Rescue Mission
The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...
Stilfontein gold mine: Why did 87 people die in South Africa?
Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...
Why did 87 miners die trapped underground in South Africa as police tried to force their surrender?
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is facing calls to order a national inquiry into a police operation that was meant to ...
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More than 100 illegal miners appear at Stilfontein Magistrates Court
The large group was arrested during a special operation to retrieve scores of zama zamas at the Buffelsfontein gold mine.
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In illegal mining war, South Africa skirting grim lack of jobs reality
The latest tragedy has seen at least 78 bodies and over 200 survivors brought to the surface from a mine in Stilfontein.
Next Africa: How the South African Mining Tragedy Unfolded
South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil ...
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‘Neighbouring states must repatriate bodies of illegal miners’
The illegal miners' home countries should be held accountable for repatriating their bodies, while the government should be ...
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Govt accused of genocide in tackling Stilfontein’s illegal miners
AT least 78 bodies and more than 200 survivors have been pulled out of the Buffelsfontein near Stilfontein in South Africa’s ...