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: ...
Human Rights Watch6d
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 ...
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 ...
Hawaii Public Radio13d
Dozens of survivors and dead pulled from abandoned South African mine
Rescuers work to retrieve miners from ground in an abandoned gold mine for months, in Stilfontein, South Africa on Tuesday. Activists said the only way out is for miners to make a dangerous trek to ...
KPBS14d
Dozens of survivors and dead pulled from abandoned South African mine
STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ... out because the shaft is too steep.
Houston Public Media14d
Dozens of survivors and dead pulled from abandoned South African mine
STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine ... trapped in a shaft in South Africa ...
The Taipei Times14d
Dozens rescued, bodies pulled from South Africa mine
Thousands of illegal miners, many of them hailing from other nations, are said to operate in abandoned mine shafts across mineral-rich South Africa. Rescuers and South African Police Service officers ...
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South Africa: Survivors, corpses pulled from gold mine
South African authorities lifted the bodies of 60 people from an abandoned ... illegal mine but said it is likely in the hundreds. Miners, many from neighboring countries, entered the shaft ...