Hundreds dead in South African gold mine as urgent rescue mission launched
Hundreds dead in South African gold mine as urgent rescue mission launched - The mine near the town of Stilfontein has been ...
Dozens of Dead Pulled From Illegal South African Gold Mine After Standoff With Authorities
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Financial Times21d
The South African gold mines taken over by criminal gangs
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 ...
Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and starving in abandoned South Africa mine
South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...
South Africa: Survivors, corpses pulled from gold mine
South African authorities lifted the bodies of 60 people from an abandoned gold mine, police have said. Hundreds more people ...
AllAfrica.com1d
Africa: Slavery, Tax Evasion, Resistance - the Story of 11 Africans in South America's Gold Mines in the 1500s
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 Irish Times18d
‘Surrender or starve’: Siege outside South African gold mine taken over by criminal gangs
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 ...
America Magazine24d
Destitute South Africans and migrants risk their lives in illegal mines—and are exploited by criminal gangs
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 ...