South African Police Lower Cage Into Mine to Check if Anyone Left After 78 Died
South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ascertain if any survivors or corpses were still there after a months-long siege by authorities in which at least 78 miners died.
Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...
A miner who spent six months in a disused mine in South Africa has spoken of the horror he experienced after a police operation cut off food and basic supplies to thousands who were illegally digging ...
South African rescuers on Thursday ended their attempts to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...
In a statement, police said 51 bodies had been retrieved by Tuesday night, following nine the previous day. The 106 survivors ...
The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food ...
CAPE TOWN - As the death toll in Stilfontein in the North West mounts, so is the criticism. Trade Union Federation COSATU ...
With the sheer numbers of illegal miners turning up dead, a small town like Klerksdorp doesn't appear to have capacity to ...
Rescue teams have successfully extracted both survivors and bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, where a ...
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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 ...
Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe at the Africa Energy Week in Cape Town on 7 November 2024 ... to ...
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