South Africa tried to pressure informal gold miners by cutting off food. Now it’s pulling out bodies
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
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Dozens of survivors and dead pulled from abandoned South African mine as hundreds remain underground
STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, rescuers brought dozens of bodies and ...
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South African rescue operation brings illegal miners, bodies, to surface
Rescue operations were underway at a gold mine in South Africa’s North West province where hundreds of illegal miners have been underground for months. More than 50 bodies were brought to the ...
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South Africa pulls 36 corpses from illegal mine, arrests 82 survivors
Police have laid siege to illegal mine since August Footage emerged on Monday of corpses, emaciated miners All 82 pulled out alive to face criminal prosecution Government labels illegal mining ...
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 ...