Death toll rises to 87 as standoff between police and miners ends in South Africa
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working ...
South Africa ends mine rescue operation with at least 78 dead and 246 survivors
The closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine was the scene of a standoff in November when police tried to force the miners out by ...
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Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and feared starving in an abandoned South Africa mine
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic ...
Death toll rises to 87 as stand-off between South African police and miners ends
Authorities now believe that nearly 2,000 miners had been underground working illegally at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine ...
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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 ...
Rescuers and volunteers pull more bodies of dead workers from abandoned gold mine in South Africa
Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to ...
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Bodies of illegal miners recovered from Buffelsfontein mine
NINE bodies were among illegal miners retrieved from the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein following rescue operations ...
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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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DA calls for an independent Commission of Inquiry into the events at Buffelsfontein
The DA calls on President Cyril Ramaphosa to immediately establish an independent Commission of Inquiry into all aspects of ...
South Africa accused of 'horrific' crackdown as 78 corpses pulled from besieged mine
At least 78 illegal miners have been pulled out dead from a South African mine where police blocked food and water supplies for months in what trade unions described as a "horrific" state crackdown on ...