Picture: Christian Velcich / AFP STILFONTEIN - Mining experts in Stilfontein don’t expect light rain in the area to hamper the ongoing ... shaft 11 at the Buffelsfontein mine.

Doing laundry is annoying; a good laundry hamper helps. It can make the process of sorting your colors and delicates and transferring your dirty laundry to the machine as seamless as possible ...

FILE: Three illegal miners were arrested after they emerged from shaft 10 at the old Buffelsfontein gold mine in the North West on 28 November 2024. Picture: Katlego Jiyane/EWN CAPE TOWN - Police ...

It was one of the most thrilling finishes to the hamper campaign in its nearly three-decade existence. The Jerome Taylor Memorial/Whig Standard Christmas Hampers of Hope Fund met and exceeded its ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the Buffelsfontein mine, after security officials cut off food, water ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa's government for failing to prevent what they call a "massacre" at the Buffelsfontein mine, after security officials cut off food, water, and other ...

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.

Nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally underground at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine south west of Johannesburg, police said. In total, 87 of them died underground, with 78 bodies retrieved in ...

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 ...

The tragedy at Buffelsfontein is a symptom of deeper systemic failures within South Africa’s governance and mining sectors. Disused shafts like those at Buffelsfontein have become sites of ...