Word: kinross
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Racially motivated violence, in the meantime, showed no sign of ending, as evidenced by a bombing in a Johannesburg hotel and continued unrest in the townships. Two memorial services were held for the 177 miners who died in the Kinross gold-mine disaster a fortnight ago. On a soccer field near the scene of the accident, where 3,000 miners had assembled for the ceremony, several hundred black protesters surrounded the pulpit. One man, a steward of the black National Union of Mineworkers, shouted through a handheld loudspeaker, "We are not going to pray with whites today. We've never...
Some 2,400 miners were on the day shift last Tuesday morning at the Kinross gold mine, 65 miles from Johannesburg. A welding team was repairing a broken track for one of the trains that help carry gold ore to the surface. Suddenly, an acetylene tank sparked and flared. Flames swept through the tunnel, igniting plastic-covered wiring, which in turn set fire to polyurethane foam that keeps the walls dry and solid. Within minutes the mine shaft filled with thick black smoke containing toxic fumes from the burning plastic. Choking miners immediately fell and died of asphyxiation. When...