Death toll rises to 87 as standoff between police and miners ends in South Africa
The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned ...
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Stilfontein: High-tech equipment sent down as police verify claims of no more miners underground
More than 250 illegal miners have been retrieved since the start of phase three this week, with 78 dead bodies being recovered.
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Trapped in Despair: The Illegal Mine Dilemma at Buffelsfontein
The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...
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Stilfontein update: Rescue operations underway at Buffelsfontein Mine
To date, more than 1500 individuals involved in illegal mining have surfaced and been apprehended at the Buffelsfontein Gold ...
Rescuers bring out survivors and dead from a South African mine as hundreds remain deep underground
Authorities launched an operation in November to force the illegally operating miners out by cutting off food and water from ...
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Call for independent inquiry into events at Buffelsfontein – James Lorimer
The DA calls on President Cyril Ramaphosa to immediately establish an independent Commission of Inquiry into all aspects of ...
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Stilfontein must not be another Marikana, President Ramaphosa
Official communiqués have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State’s ...
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Bodies of illegal miners emerge from Buffelsfontein mine
NINE bodies were among illegal miners retrieved from the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein following rescue operations ...