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Dozens of bodies retrieved from South Africa mine after months-long police standoff
(Themba Hadebe/The Associated Press) Illegal mining is a common practice in South Africa, where more than 30 per cent of people are unemployed. Migrants and others desperate to make ends meet ...
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At least 100 illegal miners have died trapped in South African mine, group says
At least 100 people who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa have died after being trapped deep underground for months while police tried to get them out, a group ...
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South African police end mine rescue operation with at least 78 dead and 246 survivors
All of them would be arrested and charged with illegal mining and trespassing, police said. South Africa’s second biggest political party, which is part of a government coalition, has called for ...
78 Bodies Recovered From South African Illegal Gold Mine As Police Face Backlash For ‘Horrific’ Blockade Strategy
Rescue workers retrieved at least 78 bodies from an illegal gold mine in South Africa, where police cut off food and water ...
Trapped underground with decaying bodies, miners faced a dark reality
Allegations that the miners resorted to eating human flesh in order to survive were also made by other miners who were ...
The Stilfontein massacre: a crime of the ANC and South African capitalism
These 78 workers were murdered by the ANC government. Its barbarous actions are a devastating indictment of bourgeois ...