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 ...
Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and feared starving in an abandoned South Africa mine
South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have ...
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Ivermectin: South African medics using unproven worm drug to treat Covid-19
However, South Africa's medical regulator, the drug's manufacturer and some of the country's most eminent scientists have all warned against using it to treat coronavirus. It has now become ...
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South Africa accused of ‘horrific’ crackdown as 78 bodies pulled from mine
The Democratic Alliance, the second-biggest party in the governing coalition, calls for an independent inquiry.
60 bodies pulled from illegal mine in South Africa; many more trapped
Hundreds are still trapped at the Stilfontein gold mine, a rights group said. Authorities tried to flush out the miners by ...
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Christmas in jail for Nigerian man arrested for drug dealing, while his South African girlfriend released on bail
The case of drug possession and drug dealing against ... Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing millions of readers ...
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Ex-convict nabbed with South African-bound drug at Lagos airport
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have thwarted an attempt by an ex-convict, Olanrewaju Akorede, to smuggle a consignment of Rohypnol to South Africa via the export shed at ...
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Weekend in jail for drug dealing accused Nigerian man, while his South African girlfriend gets R1,000 bail
The case of drug possession and drug dealing against ... Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing millions of readers ...