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Death toll rises to 87 as standoff between police and miners ends in South Africa
The miners are suspected to have died of starvation and dehydration. Authorities now believe that nearly 2,000 miners were ...
Dozens of Dead Pulled From Illegal South African Gold Mine After Standoff With Authorities
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
South Africa ends mine rescue operation with at least 78 dead and 246 survivors
The closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine was the scene of a standoff in November when police tried to force the miners out by ...
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Rescuers attempt to bring out survivors among hundreds trapped in a South African mine
Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines in an attempt to bring out survivors ...
The Maui News1h
Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and feared starving in an abandoned South Africa mine
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic ...
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Stilfontein must not be another Marikana, President Ramaphosa
Official communiqués have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State’s ...
Daily Maverick on MSN14h
The Stilfontein miners rescue operation, and more from around the world
Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past three ...