The Associated Press on MSN14d
Why did 87 miners die trapped underground in South Africa as police tried to force their surrender?
The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police cut off food supplies for a period of time to the miners working illegally in the mine's ...
South Africans demand answers after mine tragedy: ‘How many more must die?’
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
'They called them troublemakers, but they were our survival': Stilfontein struggles after illegal mining crackdown
In Stilfontein, the government’s crackdown on illegal mining was meant to restore order. But for residents like Rita de Sonsa ...
A South African horror story: Illegal mining standoff draws to an end
In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close ...
The Associated Press on MSN15d
78 dead at abandoned South Africa gold mine that was scene of a standoff. Toll is expected to rise
Police first tried to force the miners out of the closed mine near the town of Stilfontein, southwest of Johannesburg, in November by cutting off their supplies. The move, part of a larger crackdown ...
The Associated Press on MSN16d
Rescuers attempt to bring out survivors among hundreds trapped in a South African mine
Police said they are uncertain how many remain, but it is likely to be hundreds. The mine near the town of Stilfontein, southwest of Johannesburg, has been the scene of a tense standoff between police ...
allAfrica.com on MSN2d
South Africa: From Marikana to Stilfontein Our Lives Count for Nothing
In South Africa, more than thirty years after the end of apartheid, the lives of people who are black and poor are not counted as human lives. We are murdered with impunity and left to die with ...
The Associated Press on MSN13d
South African miner describes horrors for those who spent months underground
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near the town of Stilfontein began to unfold in August, when police ...
The Goshen News16d
Dozens of survivors and dead pulled from abandoned South African mine as hundreds remain underground
Rescuers have sent a cagelike structure into one of South Africa’s deepest gold mines to bring out survivors among hundreds ...
The Associated Press on MSN10d
Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger over police’s ‘smoke them out’ tactics
The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold ...
Radio France Internationale13d
South African union calls Stilfontein mine siege a 'state-sponsored massacre'
South African rescuers on Thursday ended their attempts to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...
The Meadville Tribune15d
South African police announce sudden end of mine rescue operation, say all bodies and survivors out
South African police say they have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where scores of illegal miners were ...