What to know about a standoff between police and illegal miners at a South Africa mine
South African authorities are embroiled in a standoff with an unconfirmed number of illegal miners who remain underground at ...
‘Zama zamas are not trapped’: Police say 14 Mozambicans resurfaced at Stilfontein mine, promptly arrested
National police spokesperson, Brigadier Athlenda Mathe said a total of 14 illegal miners who are all Mozambicans resurfaced ...
South Africa Says It Won't Help Illegal Miners Inside Closed Mine
Illegal mining continues to be widespread in South Africa, where miners enter abandoned shafts to search for remaining ...
4,000 miners cut off from supplies in underground standoff over illegal mining in South Africa
South Africa's government says it will let thousands of illegal miners starve until they accept their fate and emerge from an ...
Illegal mining clampdown in South Africa: treating desperate people like criminals is an injustice – legal scholar
The narrative of criminality is dangerous. It dehumanises destitute people, who are forced into informal mining to escape ...
South Africa Police Try Siege Tactics on Illegal Mining, Igniting Debate
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 ...
Illegal miners trapped underground in South Africa with rescue efforts delayed by rains
An estimated 4,000 illegal miners are still trapped underground at an unused mine in Stilfontein, North West Province of ...
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Volunteers mobilise as South Africa says it will rescue trapped miners
Government initially closed a shaft to deprive undocumented miners it called ‘criminal’ of food, water and medicine.
Families gather at South African mine shaft where hundreds are feared stuck underground
Desperate relatives of possibly hundreds of illegal miners stuck underground in a disused mine shaft in South Africa waited ...
South Africa won’t help illegal miners inside closed mine: ‘smoke them out’
Police closed off the entrances for moving supplies underground, cutting off miners’ supplies to force them to resurface for ...
South Africa’s government won’t help the illegal miners inside a closed mine
South Africa’s government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North ...