South Africa Mine Rescue Ends, Anger Rises Over 78 Deaths in Police Siege
Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa. Typically, undocumented miners known as zama zamas - from an isiZulu expression for "taking a chance" - move into mines abandoned by commercial miners and seek to extract whatever is left. Some are under the control of violent criminal gangs.
The video is from 2023 and shows a contingent of South African firefighters who traveled to Canada to help fight fires there.
Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...
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The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
South African authorities have ome under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...
The South African government has launched a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in the country’s North West province, ...
Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...
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