South Africa Police Standoff With Illegal Gold Miners Escalates
The South African police intensified efforts to force hundreds of illegal gold miners holed in underground shafts to the ...
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S.African president defends crackdown on illegal miners
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Monday that hundreds of illegal miners in an abandoned gold mine shaft must ...
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 ...
South Africa's Ramaphosa calls for safe recovery of illegal miners stuck underground
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Monday lives should not be put at risk in a standoff between police and ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
'We will smoke them out': South Africa seeks arrest of illegal miners hiding underground
Authorities in South Africa have cut off supplies to nearly 4,000 illegal gold miners hiding underground, as the government ...
South Africa's government says it won't help a group of illegal miners inside a closed mine
The miners in the mineshaft in Stilfontein are believed to be suffering from a lack of food, water and other basic ...
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 Arrests Hundreds Of Illegal Miners In Crackdown
South African police on Tuesday detained 269 illegal miners as they left a disused gold mine after security forces cut off their food and water supplies, adding to 565 rounded up at the weekend.