Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
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Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
South Africa’s Federation of Trade Unions (SAFTU) described the deaths at the Stilfontein mine, located around 97 miles (156 ...
South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
South African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa — The death toll in a months-long standoff between police and miners trapped while working ...
South African rescuers ended their attempts on Thursday to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...
Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out ... South African authorities began their operation at ...
These 78 workers were murdered by the ANC government. Its barbarous actions are a devastating indictment of bourgeois ...
The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...