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Miners are leaving gold mine in South Africa having been underground for 3 days in union dispute
Associated Press via AOL· 7 months agoHundreds of miners who spent three days underground as part of a union dispute were leaving a gold...
Miners from a rival union are holding hundreds of colleagues underground in South Africa, police say
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 7 months agoA group of miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding hundreds of their colleagues...
Horrific rape case raises South Africa ghosts
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWomen protest outside a courthouse in Krugersdorp, South Africa, where more than 80 men suspected of a gang rape appeared in court. (Shiraaz Mohamed /...
Cyril Ramaphosa - South African union leader, mine boss, president
BBC via Yahoo News· 3 weeks ago[Getty Images] With his suave, urbane demeanour, decades worth of political experience and...
Factbox-Who will lead South Africa after the May 29 election?
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoSouth Africa's May 29 election looks set to be the most tightly contested since the end of...
South Africa bets on military deployment to crush illegal mining gangs
Semafor via Yahoo News· 6 months agoThe News JOHANNESBURG — South Africa’s government is betting on its deployment of 3,000 soldiers to...
Who’s Who in South Africa’s Tightest Post-Apartheid Election
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 3 weeks ago(Bloomberg) -- For the first time since White-minority rule ended three decades ago, South Africa is...
S. African communities terrorised by gold mining gangs
AFP via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoWalking between the corrugated iron shacks of the informal settlement west of Johannesburg she calls...
After 10 years, widows of victims of 'Marikana massacre' left with no answers
Reuters via Yahoo News· 2 years agoNosihle Ngweyi and Zameka Nongu complete a laborious climb up a small hill in South Africa's Marikana town and look forlornly at the site where their husbands were killed on Aug. 16, 2012. Their ...
Victorville native recalls singing for Pope Benedict XVI
Victorville Daily Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoNearly a decade ago, singer Hayley Firebaugh of Victorville traveled to Rome, where she and her...