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Illegal miners in South Africa 'resorted to cannibalism' during police stand-off
Back in August, the police began blocking food and water from entering the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein in ...
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Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and feared starving in an abandoned South Africa mine
Authorities launched an operation in November to force out the men who were mining illegally at the closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine by cutting off their food and water supplies from the surface ...
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SA's porous borders contribute to proliferation of illegal mining - Mchunu
Of the 1,826 "zama zamas" or illegal miners arrested in the Vala Umgodi operation at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, only 26 were South African. ALSO READ: Mantashe admits he has ...