South Africa's Heart of Darkness —Capitalism, Cannibalism and Cadavers
How can one rationalise punishing miners in such a manner—miners who, in many cases, are themselves economic refugees from ...
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Dozens of survivors and dead pulled from abandoned South African mine
The mine has been the scene of a tense standoff between police and miners since authorities launched an operation to force ...
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South African Govt retrieves 60 bodies from closed gold mine
The South African government has retrieved no fewer than 60 bodies from the shaft of a closed gold mine more than 2 km ...
‘We are not even dealing with South Africans’: Deputy Police Minister Polly Boshielo says Stilfontein sets wrong precedent
The deputy minister argued that the trapped miners do not have correct documentation and rescuing them sets a bad precedence.
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Stilfontein body count mounts as 51 corpses hauled from mine, 106 rescued
As day two of the 10-to-16-day operation to rescue illegal miners trapped underground at the Buffelsfontein gold mine just outside Stilfontein came to a close on Tuesday evening, 14 January, the ...
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Body count from South African mine siege rises to 60
South African authorities have pulled at least 60 bodies from the shaft of a closed goldmine more than 2km underground where ...