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Nobody in South Africa seems to know where Tiger is. The 42-year-old from neighbouring Lesotho, whose real name is James Neo ...
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Sleeping next to decomposing corpses and surviving on a foul mixture of toothpaste mixed with toilet paper. That's how an unknown number of unauthorized miners ...
Detained after being accused of controlling the illegal operations at an abandoned gold mine near Stilfontein in South Africa, where 78 corpses were discovered underground in January, Tiger ...
The High Court in Pretoria, South Africa, said in an interim ruling that all miners underground in the mine in Stilfontein should be allowed to leave and no one should block their exit ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine on Wednesday and said they believe they have brought out all the survivors and retrieved all ...
The 260 miners who were trapped underground at a Sibanye-Stillwater gold mine in South Africa were all safely brought to the ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold mine, where they have languished for over ...
Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...
“The Stilfontein mine is a crime scene where ... that “the rights of all people are respected.” Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out hundreds of people ...
Standoff in South Africa Ends With 87 Miners Dead and Anger Over Police's 'Smoke Them Out' Tactics STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and ...
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 ...
Volunteer rescue workers and community members leave the area near a closed mine where illegal miners are inside in Stilfontein, South Africa on Thursday. South African ministers of police and ...