Police vow to arrest South African miners as standoff continues
A court says emergency workers must be allowed to enter a mine where hundreds are thought to be without food and water.
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Illegal Miners Battling To Survive South Africa Standoff
Community members are searched by South African Police Service (SAPS) officers before entering the mine shaft to negotiate with artisanal miners underground to resurface in Stilfontein on November 13, ...
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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 ...
Illegal miners ‘starving’ underground in stand-off with S. African cops; decomposed body taken out
The police are limiting food and water supplies to force out the hundreds of people believed to be in a disused shaft. Read ...
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‘Zama zamas’ ‘starving’ underground at Silfontein mine in SA standoff
Illegal miners at a disused SA shaft are starving because police are limiting supplies in an attempt to force out those ...
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Rescue operation in Khuma at Shaft 11 to resume on Monday
The rescue operation led by community volunteers in Khuma near Stilfontein to retrieve illegal miners at Shaft 11 in one of ...
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 ...
Hundreds of illegal miners holed up in disused shaft in South Africa. Here’s what we know
Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies ...