SIDLEY - Alex Farquar, who has been suffering with an attack of quinsy (an abscess behind the tonsils, usually caused by a severe case of tonsillitis) for the past week, tried to motor to Molson with ...
In mid-January 2024 over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in South Africa. They had been starved out by the police in Operation Vala ...
AP South Africa’s Buffelsfontein Gold Mine has become the center of a storm. Civic groups say at least 100 miners have died in an abandoned gold mine and that hundreds of others remain trapped deep ...
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 ...
Sabelo Mnguni, a spokesman for the Mining Affected Communities United in Action Group, said a mobile phone sent to the surface with some rescued miners on Friday had two videos on it showing ...
Sabelo Mnguni, a spokesman for the Mining Affected Communities United in Action Group, told The Associated Press that a cellphone sent to the surface with some rescued miners on Friday had two ...
It comes after a weeks-long saga where authorities have been accused of trying to force the miners to surface by stopping food and water supplies. It is not clear how many people are in the ...