South Africans demand answers after mine tragedy: ‘How many more must die?’
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
Informal mining in South Africa is here to stay. Police brutality won’t end it – here’s what will
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
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Death of Miners in South Africa a Government Failure
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
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The camera that saved trapped miners in South Africa
A specialised camera has been a literal life line to many miners trapped in South Africa ...
The rescue of hundreds of miners in a deep South African gold mine began with a camera and a note
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
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South African miner describes horrors for those who spent months underground
STILFONTEIN, South Africa. (AP) — Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up.
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Stilfontein gold mine: Why did 87 people die in South Africa?
A tragedy has played out in a South Africa after 87 miners were left to die underground as authorities attempted to force ...
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Why did 87 miners die trapped underground in South Africa as police tried to force their surrender?
South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country’s 6,000 abandoned or closed mines to search for leftover deposits.