At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
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 to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
(Themba Hadebe/The Associated Press) Illegal mining is a common practice in South Africa, where more than 30 per cent of people are unemployed. Migrants and others desperate to make ends meet ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87, ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87 ...
Standoff in South Africa Ends With 87 Miners Dead and Anger Over Police's 'Smoke Them Out' Tactics STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and ...