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Africa: South Africa

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South African union calls Stilfontein mine siege a 'state-sponsored massacre'

Jan 17, 2025 | Africa: South Africa

South African rescuers on Thursday ended their attempts to find anyone left in an illegal gold mine where at least 78 pe ...

Jan 17, 2025 | Africa: South Africa

The derelict Stilfontein shaft, which became a hell hole for hundreds of trapped miners, is just one of 6,000 that have ...

Jan 16, 2025 | Africa: South Africa

Rescuers racing to clear a disused South African gold shaft of illegal miners said Thursday a final sweep appeared to sh ...

Jan 15, 2025 | Africa: South Africa

Fast bowler Anrich Nortje was on Tuesday ruled out of the Champions Trophy because of a back injury. The latest injur ...

Jan 15, 2025 | Africa: South Africa

Rescuers pulled more bodies from a disused gold shaft in South Africa where the toll climbed to 78 Wednesday as police t ...

Jan 15, 2025 | Africa: South Africa

South African authorities have recovered at least 60 bodies from an abandoned gold mine more than two kilometres undergr ...

Jan 14, 2025 | Africa: South Africa

Thirty-six bodies have been lifted out of an abandoned South African gold mine over two days, police said Tuesday, with ...

Jan 14, 2025 | Africa: South Africa

Over two dozen illegal miners were rescued and at least 15 bodies recovered from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa, ...

Jan 14, 2025 | Africa: South Africa

More than two dozen illegal miners have been rescued and at least nine bodies recovered from an abandoned gold mine in S ...

Jan 14, 2025 | Africa: South Africa

More than two dozen illegal miners have been rescued and at least nine bodies recovered from an abandoned gold mine in S ...

Jan 13, 2025 | Africa: South Africa

Rescuers on Monday hoisted seven illegal miners and at least four bodies from an abandoned South African gold mine amid ...

Jan 8, 2025 | Africa: South Africa

As the first African country to lead the trillion-dollar G20 group, South Africa will spend 2025 pushing debt relief, cl ...

Jan 4, 2025 | Africa: South Africa

Thousands of colourfully costumed minstrels paraded through Cape Town Saturday in an exuberant century-old carnival root ...

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