She had just given birth to their daughter, and he, with no job and a growing family to feed, risked arrest by descending thousands of feet into an abandoned gold mine, hoping to scrape enough of ...
"Our operations are ongoing; we are static. It is not like we are blocking; there is no entry or exit point at these abandoned mines that is blocked. “We are simply stopping and preventing ...
The miners are in a standoff with police, who have blocked their supplies of food and water to force them out and arrest them for illegally entering the abandoned mine in search of leftover gold ...
“We have taken a decision that no police officer, no soldier or government official will go down to an abandoned mine. There is a high risk of loss of life,” she said. Mathe said they had ...
Mining analyst David van Wyk says government needs to conduct audits of abandoned mines and ensure that the owners are prosecuted. He has warned that illegal mining will continue as long as abandoned ...