At least 100 illegal miners have died of suspected starvation and dehydration after being trapped underground for months in an abandoned gold mine in North West province, South Africa. The group ...
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 essential ...
Cape Town: Workers trapped in a deep gold mine in South Africa for nearly nine months have told how they survived this time. The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a ...
An operation to rescue illegal gold miners who are stranded in deep underground shafts in South Africa’s North West province ... sealed off shafts at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein ...
Video / NZ Herald, AFP An operation to rescue illegal gold miners stranded in deep underground shafts in South Africa’s North West province ... off shafts at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in ...
An operation to rescue illegal gold miners who are stranded in deep underground shafts in South Africa ... at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, about 156km south-west of Johannesburg ...
(Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images) NINE bodies were among illegal miners retrieved from the Buffelsfontein ... last year when the South African Police Service launched a raid aimed at ...
A South African Police Services ... “Tiger” Tsoaeli in Stilfontein, North West, have been granted bail. Tsoaeli resurfaced from a shaft at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine on 15 January during ...
An operation to rescue the miners from the Buffelsfontein mine, 160km west of Johannesburg ... in unlawful mining and the inability of South Africa, once the world’s top gold producer, to ...
A PRESS release issued by MACUA-WAMUA on January 10, 2025, confirmed a landmark ruling by the High Court of South Africa ... of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein, North West.
Months after South Africa’s government began ... authorities began their operation at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, about 95 miles west of Johannesburg, in November after some ...
Rescuers are sending a cage-like structure into one of South Africa's deepest mines ... major operation targeting illegal gold mining in West Africa has resulted in 200 arrests and the seizure ...