The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a mine last year after a standoff with police. The miners, trapped a mile below the ground, were recently evacuated.

In August, police began blocking food and water from entering the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein in the North West province of South Africa, to try to force hundreds of illegal ...

A team of 402 illegal miners became trapped in the depths of Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in South Africa but only 324 of them emerged when they were pulled out. Seventy-eight of them met a grim fate ...

Official projections show numbers are due to rise from 67.6million in mid-2022 to 72.5million in mid-2032, even though deaths will completely offset births. The level of net migration is estimated ...

President Donald Trump is enhancing his attack on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs by now banning the practice from the military. Trump plans to sign two executive orders this week ...

Investors will watch meeting outcome to see if President Donald Trump’s policies will affect the central bank’s views ...

The DA calls on President Cyril Ramaphosa to immediately establish an independent Commission of Inquiry into all aspects of what happened at Buffelsfontein mine so that those who have been derelict in ...

Despite surfacing from Shaft 11 at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine during rescue operations on or about Sunday, 19 January 2025, Tiger has not been seen since, with police now investigating officers who ...

The Democratic Alliance (DA) has delivered an official letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa, urging him to establish a Commission of Inquiry into the ongoing disaster at the Buffelsfontein Mine in ...