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 mine last year ...

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Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...

The national crackdown against illegal mining began in late 2023, in part spurred by the rise of violent crime in communities ...

The bodies of 78 Zama Zama's were pulled from the Buffelsfontein gold mine this week during a government-led operation to ...

The South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco) in North West on Friday claimed that a volunteer involved in the rescue ...

The large group was arrested during a special operation to retrieve scores of zama zamas at the Buffelsfontein gold mine.

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...

South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine last year. That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described ...