Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...
The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
In a police crackdown at an illegal gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, 78 people died and hundreds were rescued. The ...
The authorities had at one point limited the miners’ access to food, water and other supplies in a blockade that drew ...
A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold ...