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GIWUSA demands inquiry into Stilfontein ‘massacre’
The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa is demanding the establishment of an independent commission of inquiry ...
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Saps retrieve 78 bodies from abandoned gold mine
The authorities are carrying out the final phase of an operation that began in October to force an unknown number of people ...
Death toll rises to 87 as standoff between police and miners ends in South Africa
STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working ...
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Mine rescue operation ends abruptly with all bodies and survivors out
South African police said Wednesday they have ended a rescue operation and believe they have brought out all the survivors ...
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Rescuers attempt to bring out survivors among hundreds trapped in a South African mine
Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa’s deepest mines in an attempt to bring out survivors ...
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South Africa accused of 'horrific' crackdown as 78 corpses pulled from illegal mine
A total of 246 survivors were rescued in a court-ordered operation but were immediately arrested for illegal mining.
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 ...
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Stilfontein must not be another Marikana, President Ramaphosa
Official communiqués have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State’s ...