Next Africa: How the South African Mining Tragedy Unfolded
South African rescue workers retrieved 78 bodies from a disused gold mine in Stilfontein where hundreds of illegal extractors have been involved in a months-long standoff with the authorities. Civil rights groups said at least 100 people died from starvation after the mine was sealed off by the security forces to deny those underground access to food to force them to the surface.
The latest tragedy has seen at least 78 bodies and over 200 survivors brought to the surface from a mine in Stilfontein.
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
Opinion - Official communiqués have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State's representatives neither know nor care that the Buffelsfontein mine was ...
A map of a gold mine in Buffelsfontein, South Africa: Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa where companies close down mines that are no longer profitable, leaving groups ...
A standoff at an illegal South African gold mine has resulted in at least 87 fatalities, highlighting tensions between police and miners. Authorities face criticism for their tough stance, while a ...
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