South Africa is considered one of the most violent countries in the world. According to official statistics, more than 21,000 people were killed there between April 2018 and March 2019, an average ...
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Marikana Massacre 16 August 2012 On 16 August 2012, the South African Police Service (SAPS) opened fire on a crowd of striking mineworkers at Marikana, in the North West …
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South Africa mourns 44 killed in mine clashes - CNN. Aug 23, 2012 · Rustenburg, South Africa (CNN)-- South Africans wept, sang somber hymns and prayed at memorial services Thursday to mourn 44 people killed during …
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A methane gas explosion in a disused South African mine killed at least 31 people last month believed to be from neighbouring Lesotho, South Africa's energy department said on Friday.
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A searchable database of over 160 000 names of people killed or injured in mines and quarries 1700-2000. It is not complete and may have inaccuracies. ... 1843 South Shields Committee for the Investigation of Accidents in Mines. Report of the South Shields Committee appointed to investigate the causes of accidents in coal mines : . ). . Accidents.
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At least five people are presumed dead after a disused diamond mine collapsed in Namaqualand in the Northern Cape. Authorities in the area say the mine reportedly collapsed in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The people in the mine – believed to have been illegal miners or zama zamas – were trapped for hours, with …
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At least 31 illegal miners are believed to have died in a gas explosion in a shuttered gold mine in South Africa that happened more than a month …
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South Africa's mining death toll reached an all-time low in 2019 with 51 fatalities. The country's Department of Mineral Resources has published statistics showing annual deaths have fallen from 81 in 2018.
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Mine Type: Facility. Mined Material: Coal (Bituminous) Chargeback Date: 5/30/2023. On December 22, 2022, MSHA was informed of a contractor's death at Black Diamond Company's Wellmore #8 Prep Plant in Big Rock, VA. MSHA's initial findings indicated medical related issues as the cause of death. However, on March 31, 2023, MSHA …
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Published 1:12 AM PDT, June 23, 2023. JOHANNESBURG (AP) — At least 31 people were believed to have died in a gas explosion in a disused mine shaft in South Africa that …
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Landmines have been laid in the past by Portugal, South Africa, Cuba, Angolan Government forces, and the insurgency group UNITA throughout the nearly 20-year civil war. ... The war has resulted in a widespread mine problem of approximately 1,000 A/T mines. These mines killed 20 people in 1993, more than half of them civilians. Mauritania.
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Anti-apartheid protests continued as life for Black South Africans became more and more dire under apartheid. On June 16, 1976, up to 10,000 Black schoolchildren, inspired by new tenets of Black ...
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In the worst mine disaster in South Africa, a large section of the Clydesdale Colliery, at the Coalbrook mine near burg, Orange Free State, caved in.About 1,000 miners were in the mine at the time and 435 died after being trapped, while …
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In the worst mine disaster in South Africa, a large section of the Clydesdale Colliery, at the Coalbrook mine near burg, Orange Free State, caved in. About 1,000 miners were …
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Headlines about the farm killings are another incentive to sell up. For while South Africa's overall annual murder rate has more than halved since the end of apartheid to around 32 people per ...
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He left Britain for South Africa when he was only 18 years old. He took over the diamond mines at Kimberley South Africa and others in the area. By his early 20s, he was already a millionaire, but he did not retire. He made fortunes off the sweat of the indigenous nations and people of Southern Africa.
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In 2012 a strike at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa ended when police opened fire, killing 34 miners. Investigations have revealed one rebel leader died trying to broker a peaceful ...
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26 June, 10 people are killed by South African police in KwaThema, Springs, a township on the East Rand. 5-14 August, In a period of less than two weeks, 70 people are killed as clashes between police, amabutho …
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The number of people killed by a gas explosion in an unused coal mine in South Africa's eastern province of Mpumalanga has risen to six, and several others remain trapped, an official at the mine ...
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The data collected by the Monitor is the most comprehensive and widely-used annual, and global, dataset of casualties caused by mines/ERW. The casualty total for 2018 included datasets or reporting from the following types of sources: international organizations, conflict tracking databases, UN and national mine action centers, other UN agencies, …
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When the country's mining industry collapsed, a criminal economy grew in its place, with thousands of men climbing into some of the deepest shafts in the world, searching for leftover gold. By ...
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The development of South Africa's mining industry, and how it laid the foundations for Apartheid Although some mining had taken place in what is now South Africa centuries before Europeans arrived, 1 the modern mining industry emerged as the major shaper of South Africa's economy and race relations in the latter half of the 19 th century ...
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The murder of activist Sikhosiphi Rhadebe has not stopped communities in South Africa's Pondoland region from opposing plans for a major titanium mine. What's at stake are ecologically important lands – …
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Published by Statista Research Department, Apr 26, 2023. The number of fatal injuries in the South African mining industry has been decreasing consistently since 2000. The lowest number of ...
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Safety Science, 14 (1991) 169-185 169 Eisevier Trends and causes of fatalities in South African mines J.-P. Leger Sociology of Work Program, University of the Witwatersrand, …
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In 1986, more than 175 gold miners died in a fire in the Kinross mine, 100 miles east of Johannesburg. Mining officials say some 69,000 mine workers, most them black, have been killed in ...
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June 23, 2023, 7:17 AM JOHANNESBURG -- At least 31 illegal miners are believed to have died in a gas explosion in a shuttered gold mine in South Africa that happened more …
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The attack took place at an abandoned mine in Krugersdorp where the video crew of 22 people, including 12 women, were filming when they were attacked "by a group of armed men clad in blankets ...
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In June, 2019, more than forty creuseurs were killed in a landslide after breaking into a Glencore-owned mine in Kolwezi. Kajumba and his friends were also at the site that night, but they were ...
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At least three people were killed in a similar round of fighting in January that led to a six-week closure of the world's largest platinum mine, run nearby by Impala Platinum. That helped push ...
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More than a dozen killed in South Africa gas leak 00:19. At least 16 people, including three children, were killed by a leak of a toxic nitrate gas being used by illegal miners to process gold in ...
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Although South Africa's mining industry has been aiming to reduce mine fatalities to zero, the latest figures instead show an increase. On Thursday, the Minerals Council of South …
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July 5, 2023, 6:43 PM. At least 16 people, including three children, were killed by a leak of a toxic nitrate gas being used by illegal miners to process gold in a settlement of closely packed ...
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A dam wall collapse at an abandoned Jagersfontein diamond mine in South Africa's Free State province has resulted in the deaths of at least three people, reported Bloomberg News citing Department of Mineral Resources and Energy Nathi Shabangu as saying via SMS.. The provincial government was cited by Reuters as saying that …
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The mine, which was previously owned by Harmony, South Africa's largest gold-mining company, was last operational in the 1990s, the mineral resources department said. It is …
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by Leonie Joubert. 30 Mar 2021. A year since the first COVID-19 cases appeared in South Africa, the disease has killed more than 50,000 people. A new study now shows that a similar number of …
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