The South African government declared a national disaster towards the end of 2024 in response to an outbreak of food-borne ...
South African authorities on Monday suspended rescue operations for an unspecified number of alleged illegal miners trapped in an abandoned mine shaft west of Johannesburg due to safety concerns. Read ...
when they cut off food and other supplies to the miners underground for a period of time. It was an attempt to “smoke them out,” a South African Cabinet minister said, adding that authorities ...
78 bodies, 246 survivors pulled from mine Police blocked supplies of food and water for months Trade unions: state allowed miners 'to starve to death' Government calls illegal mining 'war on ...
STILFONTEIN, South Africa—At least 78 people have died after ... to force them to surface—often by cutting off their food and water. Workers have rescued 246 miners alive since beginning ...
In November, a South African court ordered police to halt the standoff, provide food to the trapped miners and allow rescue teams to access the mine. The nation’s Human Rights Commission (SAHRC ...
A South African antitrust regulator recommended that African Rainbow Capital, backed by billionaire Patrice Motsepe, divest from one of the country’s largest fresh agricultural produce agencies ...
At least 78 dead bodies have been retrieved from a discontinued gold mine in South Africa where police cut off food and water supplies for months, in what trade unions called a “horrific ...