Picture: Christian Velcich / AFP STILFONTEIN - Mining experts in Stilfontein don’t expect light rain in ... illegal miners occupying shaft 11 at the Buffelsfontein mine. It also marks exactly ...

A group representing the miners said at least 18 bodies and 26 survivors have been brought out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine since Friday, but more than 500 miners are still believed to be ...

Civil rights groups say at least 100 people have died from starvation since October when the authorities sealed off shafts at the Buffelsfontein ... saying it wouldn’t help rescue people ...

But they say the supplies aren’t enough and many of the miners are ... said that more than 1,500 miners who resurfaced from the Buffelsfontein mine have been arrested since authorities began ...

But that tactic has been fiercely criticized by civic groups and the community, and the South African government is under scrutiny for the way it has dealt with the issue at the Buffelsfontein ...

Mantashe, accompanied by Police Minister Senzo Mchunu, visited the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine on ... “That’s my side of the work so I don’t need to be pushed to do that. I do that as a matter ...

I ran and dove to the ground. I didn’t realise I had fallen on a metal pipe,” said Kgathi, speaking in Setswana. He lifted his shirt to show a scar on his chest where the pipe had impaled him.

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 ...