A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...
Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.
Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...
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 ...
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South Africa’s police have resorted to medieval military tactics against illegal miners. But the solution lies elsewhere: ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing ... Police tactics of blocking essential supplies at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine to trigger fear of death and further ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa's government for failing ... Police tactics of blocking essential supplies at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine to trigger fear of death and further ...
Nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally underground at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine southwest of Johannesburg ... hospital for further medical care.” Illegal mining is rife at some of South ...
South Africa is the continent’s biggest producer ... Since October, 1 907 people have emerged from Buffelsfontein gold mine — less than 100 of them are South Africans, with the majority ...
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