- South Africa’s government won’t help the illegal miners inside a closed mine ABC News
- South African authorities blockade illegal mine with 4,000 people inside Al Jazeera English
- Police spokesperson calls rescue attempt of trapped miners ‘unsafe’ Yahoo! Voices
- Body pulled from mine after police cut off supplies to ‘smoke out’ thousands of illegal miners Sky News
- 4,000 miners cut off from supplies in underground standoff over illegal mining in South Africa CBS News