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Informal Mining in South Africa Is Here to Stay. Police Brutality Won't End It - Here's What Will [analysis]
In mid-January 2024 over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in South Africa. They had been starved out by the police in Operation Vala ...
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Why did 87 miners die trapped underground in South Africa as police tried to force their surrender?
South Africa’s president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining but ended up leaving 87 miners to die underground as authorities ...
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Why did 87 miners die trapped underground in South Africa as police tried to force their surrender?
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining but ended up leaving 87 miners to die ...
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Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead
The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87, police said Thursday.
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Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger over police's 'smoke them out' tactics
STILFONTEIN, South Africa — (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at ...