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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.

Al Jazeera English · 12h

Miners holed up in abandoned South Africa shaft ‘starving’

Rescue operations involving volunteers ongoing in Stilfontein amid reports that hundreds are still trapped underground.

The Washington Post on MSN · 1d

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.

Independent Online31m

The ethical dilemma of government response to illegal mining in South Africa

“We will smoke them out”, regarding illegal miners trapped underground in Stilfontein, North West, appears to be a decisive ...

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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 ...

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