(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.

The miners were trapped in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein following a standoff with police that began in November, 2024. Police had launched an operation to force the miners ...

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.

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.

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The bodies of 78 zama zamas were recovered from the Buffelsfontein gold mine this week during a government-led operation to shut down an elaborate illicit mining network in the area. Rescuers ...

Police have arrested suspected illegal mining kingpins who allegedly tortured, assaulted, starved and killed zama zamas at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein. The number of people arrested is ...

JOHANNESBURG - As operations in Stilfontein wind down, Zimbabwean officials have been roped in to help identify and repatriate the remains of scores of illegal miners back to the neighbouring country.

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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 ...

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 ...