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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
South African government says it won't help 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine
South Africa’s government will not help the illegal miners inside a closed mine as part of an official policy against illegal ...
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 ...
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Teenager found among the zama zamas that emerged from the Stilfontein Mine
Fourteen miners resurfaced from the Stilfontein Mine in the North West. A 14 year-old teenager was among those who were ...
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 ...