Hundreds of Miners Were Trapped for Months —Until an Extraordinary Two-Man Rescue Mission
The volunteers risked their lives to venture thousands of feet underground and retrieve their neighbors. What they found was ...
'Trying to kill us': Stilfontein illegal miner recalls police siege
While South Africa is still reeling from the deadly police siege at the Stilfontein mine, one illegal miner spoke to Reuters ...
The Stilfontein massacre: A crime of the ANC and South African capitalism
These 78 workers were murdered by the ANC government. Its barbarous actions are a devastating indictment of bourgeois ...
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Stilfontein: Police say no illegal miners remain underground, courts will determine who’s responsible for deaths
Speaking to the media on Thursday, acting North West police commissioner Patrick Asaneng confirmed there were no illegal ...
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Remains of more than 70 Stilfontein illegal miners yet to be identified
The bodies of 78 zama zamas were recovered from the Buffelsfontein gold mine this week during a government-led operation to shut down an elaborate illicit mining network in the area.
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Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and feared starving in an abandoned South Africa mine
How long have they been underground? It's not clear exactly how long the miners have been underground near the town of Stilfontein, about 150 kilometers (93 miles) southwest of Johannesburg.
'Smoking out' Stilfontein miners has succeeded: Activists insist government massacred illegal miners
In November, IOL reported that Minister in the Presidency, Khumbudzo Ntshavheni insisted that government will not attempt to ...
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Stilfontein illegal miners: 'We are dying by the hour'
We will stay here until we have taken out all the people who are willing to climb into the cage,' says Mannas Fourie, CEO of ...
Trapped underground with decaying bodies, miners faced a dark reality
The crane would occasionally stop and start, leaving him dangling in the darkness. Once he got down into the mine, he was ...