Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
Hundreds dead in South African gold mine as urgent rescue mission launched - The mine near the town of Stilfontein has been ...
A total of 78 bodies and 166 survivors - some of them emaciated and disorientated - have been hauled out so far in a ...
South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...
South African authorities lifted the bodies of 60 people from an abandoned gold mine, police have said. Hundreds more people ...
South Africa was once the world’s top gold producer, but ageing infrastructure and muddled policymaking have forced many commercial operators to shut. That has left up to 6,000 disused mines ...
The transatlantic slave trade was one of the most devastating and inhumane processes in human history. It is the subject of many studies, but the individual life histories of the arrival and survival ...
The standoff has revealed the scale of criminal infiltration of the informal mining industry, a cornerstone of Africa’s most industrialised economy. South Africa was once the world’s top gold ...
In the small town of Stilfontein, some 90 miles from the city of Johannesburg, South Africa, hundreds, possibly thousands, of illegal miners—locally called zama zamas (which can be translated as ...
More than 100 illegal miners are believed to have died of starvation or dehydration in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein.