Video of South African firefighters wrongly linked to LA fires | Fact check
The video is from 2023 and shows a contingent of South African firefighters who traveled to Canada to help fight fires there.
Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger over police’s ‘smoke them out’ tactics
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground ...
'Mammoth task' to identify South Africa mine victims, police say
It will be a "mammoth task" to identify the bodies brought up from a disused mineshaft in South Africa this week, a police ...
South African rand stable after U.S. inflation report
South Africa's rand was little changed on Thursday, a day after a key U.S. inflation report boosted hopes of a less ...
South Africa Mine Rescue Ends, Anger Rises Over 78 Deaths in Police Siege
Illegal mining is common in parts of gold-rich South Africa. Typically, undocumented miners known as zama zamas - from an ...
South African police end mine rescue operation with at least 78 dead and 246 survivors
Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...
Rescuers seek last bodies in South Africa mine where 78 died in police siege
By Siyabonga Sishi and Nellie Peyton STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts ...
Dozens of Dead Pulled From Illegal South African Gold Mine After Standoff With Authorities
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve ...
South Africa criticized for ‘horrific’ mining crackdown after 78 bodies pulled from underground
The clampdown on illegal mining cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground. At least 78 bodies were pulled from ...
Death toll from South African mine siege rises to 78, rescued now at 166
South African rescuers have so far pulled 78 bodies and rescued 166 people from the Stilfontein gold mine over three days of ...
At least 100 people reportedly dead in illegal South African gold mine as rescues continue
Arguing that the miners had entered the mine without permission, authorities reportedly cracked down by cutting off their ...