Rescuers use a mobile rescue winder during a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, North West Province, South Africa, on Jan. 13, 2025. [Xinhua] A total of 246 survivors and ...

In mid-January 2024, over 1,000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein ... An astonishing 80% of all the people who work in the gold sector worldwide do so as ...

Dozens of corpses - The mine runs 2.6 kilometres ... Asaneng told a press conference in Stilfontein late on Tuesday. The rest included 128 Mozambicans, 80 from Lesotho and 33 Zimbabweans.

Movie"Abandoned by their employers and the government, the unions and local residents came together to avert a food crisis." A documentary about the devastating economic ripple effected by the ...