Death toll climbs to 87 as standoff between police, miners ends in South Africa
Police say the death toll in a standoff with miners trapped while working illegally at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa ...
Why did 87 miners die trapped underground in South Africa as police tried to force their surrender?
South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...
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 ...
Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and feared starving in an abandoned South Africa mine
South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...
Stilfontein gold mine: Why did 87 people die in South Africa?
Why did 87 people die in South Africa? - The tragedy at the abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein began to unfold in August ...
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100 Illegal Miners Dead, 500 Trapped In South Africa’s Buffelsfontein Mine
Illegal mining is a longstanding issue in South Africa, especially in abandoned mines where jobless former miners, like those at Buffelsfontein, search for gold deposits to survive. While zama ...
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High court orders immediate rescue of trapped Stilfontein miners
The tragedy at Buffelsfontein is a symptom of deeper systemic failures within South Africa’s governance and mining sectors. Disused shafts like those at Buffelsfontein have become sites of ...
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Hundreds dead in South African gold mine as urgent rescue mission launched
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 of ...
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Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and starving in abandoned South Africa mine
Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa where companies close ... began bringing survivors and bodies out of the Buffelsfontein mine on Friday, while authorities started ...
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Rescuers pull survivors from South Africa mine as hundreds remain trapped
Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa's deepest mines in an ... and 82 survivors have been brought out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine since Friday, but civic ...