Hundreds of miners became stuck underground. Why did police block their water supply?
A total of 78 bodies and 166 survivors - some of them emaciated and disorientated - have been hauled out so far in a ...
The Citizen3d
Hope amid the Stilfontein horror: SA-made, world-first technology shows its might
South African engineering innovation was put on the map after world-first rescue technology was used to save 246 lives in the ...
Trapped underground with decaying bodies, miners faced a dark reality
Mzwandile Mkwayi volunteered to go down into the shaft to help save the lives of scores of South African miners.
The Washington Post5d
South Africans demand answers after mine tragedy: ‘How many more must die?’
Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...
Radio France Internationale11d
South African union calls Stilfontein mine siege a 'state-sponsored massacre'
South African rescuers on Thursday ended their attempts to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 people ...
The Washington Post14d
60 bodies pulled from illegal mine in South Africa; many more trapped
South African authorities began their operation at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, about 95 miles west of Johannesburg, in November after some of those accused of mining underground ...