Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
Dis month, authorities rescue hundreds of illegal miners from one mine shaft for South Africa. Wetin be di dangers of working ...
Of the 324 people pulled out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, 78 had perished from starvation or dehydration. The illegal ...
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 ...
South Africa’s engineering prowess has been hailed for the role it played in the rescue of 246 individuals from the Stilfontein mine tragedy. 78 people lost their lives tragically at the ...
Mines Rescue Services (MRS), under the leadership of Mannas Fourie, recently saved 246 illegal miners (zama-zamas) who were trapped.