A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...
The bodies were discovered during an intense four-day rescue operation from Monday, 13 January. A total of 246 survivors, ...
Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally designed and manufactured Mobile Mines Rescue Winder (MMRW), equipped with ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine. That ...
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A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.
The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...
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