The Stilfontein massacre: A crime of the ANC and South African capitalism
These 78 workers were murdered by the ANC government. Its barbarous actions are a devastating indictment of bourgeois ...
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South African miner describes horrors for those who spent months underground
STILFONTEIN, South Africa. — Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and stuffy, and wracking coughs echoed in the confined ...
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South Africans demand answers after mine tragedy: ‘How many more must die?’
Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...
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How did Stilfontein kingpin 'Tiger' escape? Police boss points fingers at 'corrupt' cops within his ranks
North West police are on the hunt for an alleged Stilfontein mining kingpin, Lesotho national, James Neo Tshoaeli, also known as Tiger. Asaneng said Tiger was identified by police after some of ...
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Why did 87 miners die trapped underground in South Africa as police tried to force their surrender?
The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food supplies for a period of time to the miners working illegally in the mine's ...
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SAPS Slams Stilfontein Misinformation and Clears the Air, Netizens React
The South African Police Service defended itself against claims that it arrested a volunteer, released information about ...
More than 240 foreign nationals rescued at Stilfontein as death toll sits on 78
National police spokesperson, Brigadier Athlenda Mathe said from the illegal miners, 128 were are from Mozambique, 80 are ...