South African authorities are embroiled in a standoff with an unconfirmed number of illegal miners who remain underground at ...
Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...
South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...
The narrative of criminality is dangerous. It dehumanises destitute people, who are forced into informal mining to escape ...
The police have cut off food and water to miners for weeks in a bid to force them out of an abandoned mine. Human rights ...
in the country’s North West province, have been entering the mine, which is no longer in operation, searching for gold deposits. Such illegal mining has long been going on across South Africa.
Police closed off the entrances for moving supplies underground, cutting off miners’ supplies to force them to resurface for ...
South Africa’s government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North ...