11 dead, scores injured after South African mine …
Eleven people have been killed and at least 75 others are injured after an elevator at a mine in South Africa broke and plunged down hundreds of feet, the mine operator said Tuesday.
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Storied South African diamond mine collapses killing 3, …
A mine wall at the former De Beers diamond mine in South Africa's Free State Province collapsed over the weekend, killing at least three people and injuring another 40.
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South African miners trapped underground: What you need …
Illegal mining for gold, diamonds or other minerals is deeply widespread in South Africa, and has gone on for decades, with about 30,000 people involved by 2019.
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Elevator plummets at a platinum mine in South Africa, killing …
An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 meters (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75, the mine operator said Tuesday. It ...
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Elevator drops 650 feet at a platinum mine in South Africa, killing …
An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 meters (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75, the mine operator said Tuesday
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South Africa mine dam wall collapses, killing 1 and injuring 40
Flooding caused by the collapse of a mine dam wall in South Africa's Free State province swept away houses and cars on Sunday, the provincial government said, killing one person and injuring ...
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Gruesome Reports of Cannibalism in Illegal South …
More than 1,300 people left the mine over the five-month standoff and faced their day in court, but 300 people remained in the mine. As time wore on, the miners became increasingly weak and some were reportedly …
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Grave murder : the story behind the brutal Welkom killing
Joining forces with some of the country's most specialised experts in the occult and psychopathy, Lieutenant Ogies Nel of the Welkom Detective Unit and her colleagues in the South African Police Service unravelled one of the most brutal psychologically motivated murders ever committed in South Africa's crime history.
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Elevator plummets in South Africa platinum mine; 11 killed, …
An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 meters (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75, the mine operator said Tuesday. It ...
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Marikana Massacre 16 August 2012
The police killed 34 mineworkers, and left 78 seriously injured. Following the open fire assault - 250 of the miners were arrested. ... Striking mine workers gather on hill on 16 August 2012, before massacre occurs. ... South …
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Five workers killed at Harmony's Doornkop and Joel mines
Five workers killed at Harmony's Doornkop and Joel mines. Fatalities happened in two separate incidents on Tuesday. Isabeau van Halm. ... Gold 05 February 2025. Five workers died in two separate incidents at Harmony Gold's Doornkop and Joel mines in South Africa on Tuesday. Two employees lost their lives following a mining incident at the ...
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South African miners mark 10th anniversary of killings
Mine workers sing as they wait for the start of commemoration ceremonies near Marikana in Rustenburg, South Africa, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. South Africa marks on Tuesday 10 years since the Marikana massacre, where 44 people were killed during a mine strike at a platinum mine near Rustenburg, North West province in August 2012.
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Hundreds of illegal miners holed up in disused shaft in South Africa
Several hundred people are believed to remain in an illegal mine in South Africa after the government cut off vital supplies and refused to help them, in a dramatic bid to crack down on the industry.
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60 dead at illegal Stilfontein mine | The Witness
A video sent to AFP on Monday by Macua, a group that advocates for the miners, appeared to show dozens of corpses wrapped in cloth in the mine chambers. More than 1,500 …
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UASA condemns tragic death of member at Doornkop Mine
The safety and well-being of our members remain a top priority. We stand with Doornkop mine and will provide our support throughout the investigation by the South African Police Services (SAPS) as we seek justice for our fallen member. UASA condemns this brutal act of violence in the strongest possible terms and will not rest until justice is ...
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South African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
16 August, South African police open fire on striking miners armed with machetes and sticks at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine, killing at least 35 people. In the days leading to the massacre, 11 people were killed allegedly by mine workers.
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'Movement' detected at South African mine where dozens …
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South African authorities have detected "movement" underground at a shuttered gold mine where they believe at least 31 illegal miners died in a suspected gas explosion last month, raising the very slim possibility that there may be survivors, officials said.. Officials also said it's likely that there were more illegal miners …
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Why did 87 miners die trapped underground in South Africa …
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — South Africa's president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining but ended up leaving 87 miners to die underground as authorities attempted to force them to surrender during a …
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Timeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012
This timeline chronicles the events that unfolded prior and post the 16 August Marikana shooting and the subsequent aftermath. The build-up to the killing of 34 mineworkers by the South African Police was marked by incidents of intimidation and assault. ... Expelled ANCYL leader Julius Malema, calls for a "mining revolution" in South Africa. 30 ...
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What's behind South Africa's mine violence?
Protesters gather at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, South Africa on August 17, 2012 where the day before 34 people were killed when police opened fire on striking mineworkers.
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4,000 miners cut off from supplies in underground standoff …
Community members are searched by South African police before entering the mine shaft to negotiate with unlicensed miners underground in Stilfontein, in South Africa's North West province, Nov. 13 ...
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South Africa miners resurface after underground dispute
After four days, 400 miners underground at the Gold One mine in Springs, east of Johanneburg, resurfaced on Monday. They failed to come back up on 7 December, amid tensions between unions and the ...
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Elevator plummets at a platinum mine in South Africa, killing …
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A history of mining in South Africa
Mining in South Africa has been a contentious issue since 15-year-old Erasmus Stephanus Jacobs discovered South Africa's first diamond, the Eureka, in Hopetown in 1867. ... the police and army attacked the unarmed workers, wounding 1 248 and killing nine. The strike had "profound repercussions which are felt until this day", said the ...
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Elevator drops 650 feet at a platinum mine killing 11, …
An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 meters (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75, the mine operator said Tuesday.
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South African police end mine rescue operation with at least …
At least 78 miners were confirmed dead, police said, and 246 survivors had been rescued. The victims were suspected to have died of starvation or dehydration, civic groups …
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Elevator plummets at a platinum mine in South …
An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 meters (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75, the mine operator said Tuesday. It happened Monday evening at …
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Landmines in Southern Africa
South Africa also used stocks of landmines captured in its invasions of Angola in the 1980s to supply insurgent forces in Angola, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, as well as the illegal Rhodesian ... Mine laying 1 A. Vines, Still Killing: Landmnines in Southern Africa (New York, Human Rights Watch, 1997). Book Reviews 369 became uncontrolled and ...
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Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger …
STILFONTEIN, South Africa — The death toll in a months-long standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa …
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South Africa's Harmony Gold reports five deaths at two mines
Feb 5 (Reuters) – Five people were killed in incidents at two of Harmony Gold's South African mines, the company reported on Wednesday. Three employees died on Tuesday after a collapse at Joel ...
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