Since then, the mining industry has become hugely important to the country, contributing roughly 202 billion South African Rand (roughly 10.7 billion U.S. dollars) in 2023 to South Africa's ...
Updated 11:22 AM EST, Mon February 18, 2013. Link Copied! Nine mine employees were hurt Monday when Anglo American Platinum security guards shot …
, the South African petrochemicals giant, says it has embarked on a business-wide assessment of its safe working practices, in response to recent tragic safety incidents in its mining business. Three people died in an underground water reservoir incident at the company's Bosjesspruit mine. There was a high wall failure at the …
The South African police have confirmed that its officers shot and killed 34 striking miners and injured 78 near a platinum mine in North West province.
The British mine owners, the police and South Africa's day of blood. In August 2012, police shot 34 strikers dead in the bloodiest crackdown since the end of apartheid. Now new evidence shows ...
In a statement, RBM said the circumstances around the shooting were unknown at this stage, and the incident is being investigated by the South African Police Service.. The Richards Bay mineral ...
O n 16 August 2012, South African police opened fire on a large crowd of men who had walked out on strike from a platinum mine at Marikana, about 80 miles north of Johannesburg. They shot down 112 ...
Link Copied! A woman weeps at the scene of an overnight bar shooting in Soweto, South Africa, Sunday July 10, 2022. At least 15 people have died after a shooting at a bar in the South African ...
On 16 August 2012, the South African Police Service (SAPS) opened fire on a crowd of striking mineworkers at Marikana, in the North West Province. The police killed 34 mineworkers, and left 78 seriously injured. Following the open fire assault - 250 of the miners were arrested.
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South Africa Mine Shooting Hints At Deep Divisions Memorial services are being held for miners shot dead recently by police at a South African mine. The violent …
Striking miners fired on in South Africa. 03:58 - Source: CNN. CNN —. Violence between competing unions at South Africa's mines is threatening to weaken Africa's largest economy . On ...
Mon 3 Sep 2012 09.42 EDT. Fears over violent unrest spreading in South Africa's mining industry grew on Monday after a police shooting at a gold mine left four workers in hospital, including one ...
O n 16 August 2012, Thembisa Nkuzo was among a group of women who set out from their homes in Nkaneng settlement, in South Africa's platinum mining district, and began walking …
Print. JOHANNESBURG —. An elevator suddenly dropped around 200 meters (656 feet) while carrying workers to the surface in a platinum mine in South Africa, killing 11 and injuring 75 — 14 of ...
Earlier violence in August claimed lives of 10 people
The attack has shone a spotlight once again on South Africa's chronic problem of gender-based violence. In the first three months of this year, at least 10,818 cases of rape were reported, an ...
Last fall, several major South African mining companies, including Anglo American, were involved in labor disputes with their miners that erupted in violence. In October, police repeatedly clashed ...
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Policemen look on as women carrying placards chant slogans in protest against the killing of miners by South African police on Thursday, outside a South African mine in Rustenburg, 100 km ...
Associated Press. Oct. 25, 2023 10:03 AM PT. SPRINGS, South Africa — Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground as part of a union dispute were leaving a gold …
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's president appointed a panel of judges on Thursday to investigate the events that led up to the police shooting that killed 34 miners on strike at a platinum mine ...
A mine manager, 27, was shot and killed while seated in her vehicle in Carolina. Mpumalanga police are looking for suspects after a 27-year-old woman was fatally shot in Carolina on ...
Papi Morake/Gallo Images. Illegal miners are allegedly behind reported robberies on the M1 at the Crown Interchange on Tuesday, the Johannesburg Metro Police Department (JMPD) has said. Several disturbing messages and voice notes about five armed men going from car to car and robbing motorists were widely shared on social …
ASPASA says illegal sand mining is taking a damaging toll in South Africa. Unprotected pits create drowning hazards for people and animals, and the failure of law enforcement has led to increasingly sophisticated and larger scale operations. There are other challenges. ASPASA claims lawless sand mining remains under-reported and …
IKEMELENG, South Africa — The shock, the mourning, and now the questions 10 days after the shoot-out in a South African platinum mine in which police killed 34 striking miners.
JSE- and NYSE-listed Gold Fields on Tuesday cautioned of lower first-quarter production, citing operational challenges at the South Deep mine, in South Africa, and …
SPRINGS – Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground because of a union dispute left a gold mine in South Africa on Wednesday, mine officials and …
