Miners’ Funeral Next Week
(Rec. 10 p.m.) COALBROOK (Orange Free State), February 12. A funeral service in five languages—English, Afrikaans. Portuguest, Sotho (Basuto). and Shangain—will be held next week for the more than 400 victims of the Coalbrook mine disaster The South African. British and Portuguese Governments will be represented, but the exact date is still to be fixed. Nearly all of the African miners who died in the disaster were Basutos and Portuguese.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29128, 13 February 1960, Page 13
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