Court orders South Africa police to end standoff with illegal miners
A South African court ordered police to end a standoff with illegal miners to allow emergency workers to gain access to a mine shaft where several hundred are believed to remain after the government cut off vital supplies.
Miners holed up in abandoned South Africa shaft ‘starving’
Rescue operations involving volunteers ongoing in Stilfontein amid reports that hundreds are still trapped underground.
South Africa blocking rescue of miners is ‘tantamount to murder’
The state of South Africa is denying thousands of miners access to food and water, putting their lives at risk
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 advocates and community leaders call the tactics inhumane.
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 deposits.
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 abandoned shaft to face arrest.
Police ordered to end standoff with trapped South Africa miners
A court says emergency workers must be allowed to enter a mine where hundreds are thought to be without food and water.
South Africa denies illegal miners food and water to force them out
Officials are blocking access to basic supplies for hundreds of people underground in a northwest mine shaft as part of a crackdown on miners.
South Africa refuses to help illegal miners stuck inside closed mine
The government has refused assistance to a group of illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine in North West province as part of a law enforcement operation aimed at deterring illegal mining
South African government seeks experts’ help to bring illegal miners to the surface
The South African government says it has put together a team including mine rescue experts to come up with a plan to bring to surface illegal miners who remain under a disused gold mine.
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's government won't help the illegal miners inside a closed mine
South Africa's government says it won't help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country's North West ...
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SAPS insists illegal Stilfontein miners will be arrested as they resurface
“Pending finalisation of the application, the mine shaft in Stilfontein that forms the subject matter ... Independent ...