Jaco du Plessis, a 20-year-old student from Cape Town, is celebrated for his bravery after saving a woman from perilous rip ...

Night - Cloudy with a 53% chance of precipitation. Winds SSW at 14 to 17 mph (22.5 to 27.4 kph). The overnight low will be 17 °F (-8.3 °C). Cloudy with a high of 34 °F (1.1 °C) and a 69% ...

On a recent weekday afternoon, Christmas music gently played in the background of Hudson’s Bay’s downtown Vancouver flagship store, which was adorned with festive decorations and a few holiday ...

MOSSEL BAY NEWS - In Mossel Bay, residents can visit the Dias Museum. The replica of Bartolomeu Dias' caravel makes a fabulous backdrop for photographs. Visitors also enjoy seeing the Dias cross and ...

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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 ...

(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.

Some residents... HARTENBOS NEWS - There was mixed reaction to the fireworks held at Hartenbos Seefront to celebrate the New Year.... MOSSEL BAY NEWS - Alishe Febbraio (17) of Mossel Bay took ...

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 ...

A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa (Themba Hadebe/AP) The death toll in a ...

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 ...

Wednesday is day three of the final phase to clear illegal miners occupying shaft 11 at the Buffelsfontein mine. It also marks exactly two months since the start of the official rescue.