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Rescuers bring out survivors and dead from South African mine

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Over 500 miners remain trapped in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, many reportedly ill and starving, while at least 100 bodies are still in the Stilfontein mine. Rescue efforts have saved 58 survivors so far, but conditions in the deep shafts are worsening, with hunger and dehydration suspected as causes of death. A court has ordered the government to facilitate rescue operations, underscoring the gravity of the crisis.

  1. ZA
    Makhosonke Buthelezi
    Department of Mineral Resources and Energy
    1. We don't believe they are trapped, because other ones … have come out.
  2. ZA
    Athlenda Mathe
    South African Police Service
    1. We are stopping and preventing food and water to go down there as a way of forcing these illegal miners to resurface because what they are doing is criminality.
    2. It is unfortunate that there is loss of life … No one should have been underground because there are dangerous and hazardous gases underground and alleged abuse of illegal miners. We will be investigating allegations that the food that was sent down was kept from illegal miners.
  3. AU
    Jessica Lawrence
    Human Rights Watch
    1. The obligation to rescue the miners rests squarely on the state because it is the state that has created this crisis through its operations.
  4. ZA
    Mametlwe Sebei
    General Industries Workers of South Africa
    1. What has transpired here has to be called what it is; this is a Stilfontein massacre. Because what this footage does is show a pile of human bodies, of miners that died needlessly.

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sources

  1. 1.The Guardian
  2. 2.Al Jazeera
  3. 3.CTV News
  4. 4.CNN
  5. 5.BBC
  6. 6.ABC News (Australia)
  7. 7.ABC News
  8. 8.Agence France-Presse
  9. 9.Reuters
  10. 10.Sunday Times

perspectives

  1. 1.Organized crime
  2. 2.Mining industry
  3. 3.South African politics
  4. 4.South Africa under Cyril Ramaphosa

countries

  1. 1.South AfricaZA

organizations

  1. 1.Mining Affected Communities United in Action
  2. 2.General Industries Workers of South Africa
  3. 3.Xinjing Coal Mining Co
  4. 4.South African National Civic Organisation
  5. 5.South African Police ServiceZA
  6. 6.Human Rights Watch
  7. 7.Lawyers for Human Rights
  8. 8.Mines Rescue Services
  9. 9.South African Federation of Trade UnionsZA
  10. 10.South African Human Rights Commission
  11. 11.United in Action

persons

  1. 1.Jessica LawrenceAU
  2. 2.Athlenda MatheZA
  3. 3.Magnificent Mndebele
  4. 4.Makhosonke ButheleziZA
  5. 5.Mzukisi Jam
  6. 6.Christian Velcich
  7. 7.Clement Moeletsi
  8. 8.Gwede MantasheZA
  9. 9.Jerome Delay
  10. 10.Johannes Qankase
  11. 11.Khumbudzo NtshavheniZA
  12. 12.Ma Jianping

technicals

  1. 1.Buffelsfontein Gold Mine
  2. 2.Zulu
  3. 3.Operation Vala Umgodi