Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and feared starving in an ...
Jan 14, 2025 · CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months, with more than 100 of them believed to have died of starvation or dehydration.
The rescue of hundreds of miners in a deep South African gold mine …
Jan 21, 2025 · The deceased miners were suspected to have died of starvation and dehydration, although no causes of death have been released.South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off the miners. That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described by a prominent Cabinet minister, was condemned by one of South Africa’s biggest trade unions.
South African police and illegal miners standoff draws to a grisly …
Jan 18, 2025 · In South Africa a months long standoff between police and illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine comes to end, with close to 80 found dead in grim recovery operation.
Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger …
Jan 16, 2025 · STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87, police said Thursday. Authorities faced growing anger and a possible investigation over their initial refusal to help the miners and instead “smoke them out” by cutting off their food supplies.
South Africa's Stilfontein mine: The blockaded shaft where …
Jan 18, 2025 · The government says illegal mining cost South Africa's economy $3.2bn (£2.6bn) in 2024 alone. As part of the police operation, entry points at various disused mines were blocked, along with food ...
South African miner describes horrors for those who spent …
6 days ago · An all-formats team reported from the scene of a South Africa mine disaster where hundreds of men working illegally underground had become trapped and were being pulled out by rescuers. Through community source work, the journalists made contact with a miner who had previously been trapped and escaped in December. He agreed to be interviewed ...
Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and starving in …
Jan 14, 2025 · CAPE TOWN, South Africa -- South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months, with more than 100 of them believed to have died of starvation or dehydration.
South Africa criticized for ‘horrific’ mining crackdown after ... - CNN
Jan 15, 2025 · South Africa’s government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground, after at least 78 bodies were pulled from a...
Dozens of survivors and dead pulled from abandoned South African mine
Jan 15, 2025 · At least 60 bodies and 92 survivors had been pulled from one of South Africa's deepest mines since Monday in a red cagelike device lowered thousands of feet underground, police said. Police are...
Volunteers mobilise as South Africa says it will rescue trapped miners …
Nov 16, 2024 · Dozens of local volunteers have stepped up to help rescue what could be thousands of miners feared trapped underground in an abandoned gold mine in the town of Stilfontein in South Africa.