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Informal Mining in South Africa Is Here to Stay. Police Brutality Won't End It - Here's What Will [analysis]
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 ...
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South Africa police launch manhunt for illegal mining 'kingpin'
Thousands of illegal miners, known as "zama zamas" ("those who try their luck" in Zulu), operate in mineral-rich South Africa. The mine in Stilfontein - some 145km (90 miles) south-west of ...
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South Africa mine horror as more than 100 illegal miners die after being trapped underground for months
More than 100 people have died after being trapped for months beneath an abandoned mine in South Africa. The men had been illegally mining in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, in the north ...
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South Africa mine rescue ends, anger rises over 78 deaths in police siege
Illegal mining cost South Africa over $3 billion last year, according to the mining minister. Typically, undocumented miners move into mines abandoned by commercial miners and seek to extract ...