STILFONTEIN, South Africa. (AP) — Dozens of men sat and lay together in small caves, some so shallow they couldn’t stand up. The air was wet and stuffy, and wracking coughs echoed in the confined ...
In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.
Gold built South Africa, and in no other country has it been pursued to greater depths. Thanks to the tremendous reserves of gold and diamonds beneath its surface, the land once considered “the least ...
South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6,000 abandoned or closed mines to search for leftover deposits. According ...
The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from a mining shaft this week, and more are believed to remain underground.
Our movement condemns the reckless and racist actions of AfriForum in inciting the white right in the United States to act ...
Many mines are abandoned or liquidated without sufficient protection for rehabilitation funds, and the government does little ...
A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Themba ...
Months after South Africa’s government began an operation ... began their operation at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, about 95 miles west of Johannesburg, in November after some ...
Four police officers were arrested and appeared in court in connection with the escape of James Neo Tshoaeli, the Lesotho ...
Only 18 families have come forward to assist in the identification of the 75 badly decomposed bodies of illegal miners in ...
Seventy-five unidentified bodies of illegal miners are being held in various government mortuaries in the North West.