India.com8d
Hands, legs, ribs for food…Shocking story of miners trapped deep inside mine for 9 months left everyone shaken, it happened in…
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.
Newsweek21d
Mine Standoff That Saw Hundreds Trapped Ends With 87 Declared Dead
More than 240 survivors have been rescued at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, Stilfontein, since operations began. Many of the miners, labeled "Zama zamas—"hustlers" in the Zulu language—for their ...
The Mirror10d
Trapped South African miners resorted to CANNIBALISM and snacked on cockroaches
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 ...
The Washington Post22d
60 bodies pulled from illegal mine in South Africa; many more trapped
South African authorities began their operation at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, about 95 miles west of Johannesburg, in November after some of those accused of mining underground ...
Deccan Herald8d
Desperate hunger, cannibalism: South Africa mine tragedy survivors recall horror after rescue
unfolded last year after the police in August began blocking food and water from entering the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein in a bid to try and force illegal miners back to the surface.
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South Africa: Authorities to end search operations
Authorities said the police operation is close to ending at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, where 74 have died when police cut off food and water supplies to force illegal miners to come out.
Yahoo13d
Special rescue camera discovers hundreds of illegal miners trapped down 1.6 mile mineshaft since November
In November last year, a specialized mine camera was lowered 1.6 miles into the Buffelsfontein mine in South Africa where hundreds of illegal miners were reported to be trapped – dying of ...
Independent Online23d
High court orders immediate rescue of trapped Stilfontein miners
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 ...
Miningmx23d
Bodies of illegal miners recovered from Buffelsfontein mine
(Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images) NINE bodies were among illegal miners retrieved from the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein following rescue operations which started on Monday.
AllAfrica.com1mon
South Africa: Government Needs to Step Up to Deal With the Buffelsfontein Zama Zamas
The saga of illegal miners reportedly trapped underground at the Buffelsfontein mine in North West has been in the media since November. Yesterday I went there to see for myself and to try and ...
The Globe and Mail23d
Dozens of survivors, dead pulled from South African mine as hundreds remain underground
Authorities launched an operation in November to force out the men who were mining illegally at the closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine by cutting off their food and water supplies from the surface ...