After six months trapped underground, roughly 246 illegal miners were rescued at Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, ...
who have fiercely criticized police tactics at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, where more than 100 miners are believed to have died of starvation or dehydration. The mine has been the scene of a ...
Police said that at least 24 bodies and 37 survivors have been brought out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine since Friday, but civic organizations and groups representing the miners say more than ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to survive, then left to starve.
Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues “resorted to cannibalism”. “They cut parts of legs, arms, and ribs for ...
The committee has been called on to immediately exercise its legislative oversight functions and convene an urgent public ...
Some 324 people were pulled out of the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine around 150 kilometres from Johannesburg last week, ending a months-long standoff between the illegal miners and the police.
Cape Town: Workers trapped in a deep gold mine in South Africa for nearly nine months have told how they survived this time. The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a ...
Police in North West are still in the process of identifying bodies of illegal miners retrieved during the operation that ended in January.
The North West High Court has ordered a group of business owners and community members in Khuma, near Stilfontein ...
The accused appeared before the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court on Friday and were released on R1 000 bail each.
A monthslong police intervention to coax workers from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has ended with 87 workers declared dead, authorities confirmed Thursday. More than 240 survivors have ...