Siyabonga Sishi

Johannesburg

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Namibia’s founding president Sam Nujoma laid to rest at Heroes’ Acre

Mar 2, 2025 | businesslive.co.za | Siyabonga Sishi |Sfundo Parakozov

Windhoek — African leaders past and present gathered in Namibia on Saturday to bury Sam Nujoma, the country’s “founding father” who challenged colonialism and military occupation by SA’s then-racist white minority government.
African leaders gather for funeral of Namibia's 'founding father' Sam Nujoma

Mar 1, 2025 | msn.com | Siyabonga Sishi |Sfundo Parakozov

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Rescuers seek last bodies in South Africa mine where 78 died in police siege

Jan 16, 2025 | msn.com | Siyabonga Sishi |Nellie Peyton

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South African police lower cage into mine to check if anyone left after 78 died

Jan 16, 2025 | msn.com | Siyabonga Sishi

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South African police lower cage into mine to check if anyone left after 78 died

Jan 16, 2025 | kfgo.com | Siyabonga Sishi

By Siyabonga SishiSTILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) – South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ascertain if any survivors or corpses were still there after a months-long siege by authorities in which at least 78 miners died. The corpses and 246 survivors, some of them emaciated and disorientated, have been brought to the surface over three days of a court-ordered rescue operation.
South African police lower cage into mine to check if anyone left after 78 died

Jan 16, 2025 | thestar.com.my | Siyabonga Sishi

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ascertain if any survivors or corpses were still there after a months-long siege by authorities in which at least 78 miners died. The corpses and 246 survivors, some of them emaciated and disorientated, have been brought to the surface over three days of a court-ordered rescue operation.
South African Police Lower Cage Into Mine to Check if Anyone Left After 78 Died

Jan 16, 2025 | usnews.com | Siyabonga Sishi

By Siyabonga SishiSTILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African police lowered a camera down more than a mile (1.5 km) underground into an illegal gold mine on Thursday to ascertain if any survivors or corpses were still there after a months-long siege by authorities in which at least 78 miners died. The corpses and 246 survivors, some of them emaciated and disorientated, have been brought to the surface over three days of a court-ordered rescue operation.
Rescuers seek last bodies in South Africa mine where 78 died in police siege

Jan 16, 2025 | gazette.com | Siyabonga Sishi |Nellie Peyton

By Siyabonga Sishi and Nellie PeytonSTILFONTEIN, South Africa (Reuters) - South African rescuers were making final efforts on Thursday to ascertain whether anyone was left in an illegal gold mine deep underground where at least 78 people died during a police siege, in what a labour union called a state-sponsored massacre.
South Africa pulls 36 corpses from illegal mine, arrests 82 survivors

Jan 14, 2025 | msn.com | Nellie Peyton |Siyabonga Sishi

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South Africa pulls 36 corpses from illegal mine, arrests 82 survivors

Jan 14, 2025 | sightmagazine.com.au | Nellie Peyton |Siyabonga Sishi |David Adams

Stilfontein, South Africa ReutersSouth African rescuers have pulled out 36 dead bodies and 82 survivors from a gold mine deep underground in two days of operations, police said on Tuesday, adding that the survivors would all face illegal mining and immigration charges. Police began laying siege to the mine in August and cut off food and water supplies for months in an attempt to force the miners to the surface so they could be arrested as part of a crackdown on illegal mining.