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 rights groups said at least 100 people died from starvation after the mine was sealed off by the security forces to deny those underground access to food to force them to the surface.
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The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...
The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have been ...
South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...
No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue ...
At least 400 illegal miners remained trapped underground in South Africa two months after a police raid, a group working on behalf of the miners said on Monday, which provided footage of dozens of ...
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Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
In this article, Dr John Bristow of the Overberg Geoscientists Group writes about the centenary of diamond prospecting and ...
In the small town of Stilfontein, some 90 miles from the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, hundreds, possibly thousands, of illegal miners—locally called zama zamas (which can be translated as ...
A pulley and rope system installed by members of the South African police above a disused gold mine shaft in Stilfontein, South Africa, November 17, 2024. STRINGER / EPA/MAXPPP They were all ...
Rescuers racing to clear a disused South African gold shaft of illegal miners said Thursday a final sweep appeared to show ...
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