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The Washington Post · 8h

78 dead at abandoned South Africa gold mine that was scene of a standoff. Toll is expected to rise

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine

U.S. News & World Report · 9h

Death Toll From South African Mine Siege Rises to 78, Rescued Now at 166

South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of operations, police spokesperson Athlenda Mathe told reporters at the scene on Wednesday.

The Wall Street Journal on MSN · 6h

Dozens of Dead Pulled From Illegal South African Gold Mine After Standoff With Authorities

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve them out.

Associated Press · 9h

Rescuers and volunteers pull more bodies of dead workers from abandoned gold mine in South Africa

Rescuers continued retrieving bodies Wednesday from an abandoned South African gold mine with hundreds more still believed to be underground, many of them dead and others too weak to come out on their own.

Trapped in Despair: The Illegal Mine Dilemma at Buffelsfontein

The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...

Miningreview15h

Stilfontein update: Rescue operations underway at Buffelsfontein Mine

To date, more than 1500 individuals involved in illegal mining have surfaced and been apprehended at the Buffelsfontein Gold ...

Daily Maverick on MSN55m

Stilfontein must not be another Marikana, President Ramaphosa

Official communiques have reduced the Stilfontein dead and emaciated to children of a lesser God, as if the State’s ...

Call for independent inquiry into events at Buffelsfontein – James Lorimer

The DA calls on President Cyril Ramaphosa to immediately establish an independent Commission of Inquiry into all aspects of ...

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Rescuers bid to bring out survivors among hundreds trapped in South African mine

Months after South African authorities initially cut off supplies to miners working illegally in an abandoned gold mine, ...

Bodies of illegal miners emerge from Buffelsfontein mine

NINE bodies were among illegal miners retrieved from the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein following rescue operations ...

Cage set to retrieve illegal Stilfontein miners assembled as phase 3 of recovery operation begins

This is part of a drawn-out mission to bring to the surface illegal miners occupying shaft 11 at the old Buffelsfontein gold ...

Rescue of illegal Zama Zama miners underway

Civil rights groups say at least 100 people have died from starvation since October when the authorities sealed off shafts at ...

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