Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
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Trapped 'cannibal' miners 'eat each other's limbs' to survive as cops block food supplyTwo survivors of a mining disaster in South Africa have claimed some of their colleagues 'resorted to cannibalism' in order ...
SURVIVORS who were trapped in one of the deepest gold mines in South Africa have spoken out about turning to cannibalism to ...
Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...
The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.
The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.
The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster, became a police target in August but it was only in November that the miners' situation drew the attention of rights groups. Activists ...
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. Rescuers ...
South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine last year. That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described ...
South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine last year. That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described ...
More than 240 survivors have been rescued at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, Stilfontein, since operations began. Many of the miners, labeled "Zama zamas—"hustlers" in the Zulu language—for their ...
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