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EWN Sport · 42m

After hours of scanning, Stilfontein rescue teams say no more signs of illegal miners underground

A technical team driving an operation to shutdown an illicit mining network sent high-tech equipment down shaft 11 earlier on Thursday.

The Financial Times · 1d

South Africa arrests over 100 illegal miners after underground rescue

An operation to rescue the miners from the Buffelsfontein mine, 160km west of Johannesburg, began on Monday after a judge ordered authorities to act on humanitarian grounds. Harrowing accounts have emerged of their ordeal,

U.S. News & World Report · 1d

South African Police: 118 Illegal Miners Extracted From Stilfontein Mine, 36 of Those Dead

One hundred and eighteen illegal miners have been extracted from the Stilfontein mine in South Africa on Monday and Tuesday as part of a rescue operation, of which 36 were certified as dead, police said in a statement on Tuesday.

No more miners trapped underground in South Africa, volunteers say

No more illegal miners are believed to be trapped underground at a gold mine in South Africa, volunteers working with rescue teams have said. At least 78 bodies and more than 200 survivors have been pulled out since Monday after a court ordered the government to facilitate rescue operations at the mine,

12mon MSN

DA wants Ramaphosa to establish inquiry into Stilfontein illegal miner crisis

The DA is calling for the inquiry to investigate key issues, including the role of government agencies, the involvement of ...

11hon MSN

South African police end mine rescue operation with at least 78 dead and 246 survivors

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

DA wants investigation into Stilfontein mine, GOOD Party calls for illegal mining kingpins probe

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has emphasised the urgent need for a comprehensive investigation into the Buffelsfontein Mine in ...

14hon MSN

60 bodies pulled from illegal mine in South Africa; many more trapped

Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...

Trapped in Despair: The Illegal Mine Dilemma at Buffelsfontein

The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...

1don MSN

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 ...

1d

Dozens of survivors and dead pulled from abandoned South African mine as hundreds remain underground

Residents desperately waiting for news of family members gathered at the mine, some holding placards criticizing authorities ...

Call for independent inquiry into events at Buffelsfontein – James Lorimer

The DA calls on President Cyril Ramaphosa to immediately establish an independent Commission of Inquiry into all aspects of ...

1don MSN

Rescuers bring out survivors and dead from a South African mine as hundreds remain deep underground

Authorities launched an operation in November to force the illegally operating miners out by cutting off food and water from ...

1d

Rescuers and volunteers pull more bodies of dead workers from abandoned gold mine in South Africa

Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to ...

Daily Maverick on MSN13h

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 ...

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