Hundreds of Miners Were Trapped for Months —Until an Extraordinary Two-Man Rescue Mission
The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...
'Trying to kill us': Stilfontein illegal miner recalls police siege
While South Africa is still reeling from the deadly police siege at the Stilfontein mine, one illegal miner spoke to Reuters ...
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Remains of more than 70 Stilfontein illegal miners yet to be identified
The bodies of 78 zama zamas were recovered from the Buffelsfontein gold mine this week during a government-led operation to shut down an elaborate illicit mining network in the area.
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Stilfontein: Police say no illegal miners remain underground, courts will determine who’s responsible for deaths
Speaking to the media on Thursday, acting North West police commissioner Patrick Asaneng confirmed there were no illegal ...
Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger over police’s ‘smoke them out’ tactics
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
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Govt accused of genocide in tackling Stilfontein’s illegal miners
AT least 78 bodies and more than 200 survivors have been pulled out of the Buffelsfontein near Stilfontein in South Africa’s ...
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Stilfontein illegal miners: 'We are dying by the hour'
We will stay here until we have taken out all the people who are willing to climb into the cage,' says Mannas Fourie, CEO of ...
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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‘I don’t need to be pushed’: Mantashe on rescue mission of Stilfontein illegal miners
Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe has defended the government’s response to rescuing illegal miners ...
Trapped underground with decaying bodies, miners faced a dark reality
The crane would occasionally stop and start, leaving him dangling in the darkness. Once he got down into the mine, he was ...