After six months trapped underground, roughly 246 illegal miners were rescued at Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, ...

Press Release - The process to identify 93 bodies of suspected illegal miners retrieved from Buffelsfontein Gold Mine' shaft No. 11 between Tuesday, 03 December 2024 and Wednesday 15 January 2025, is ...

The Buffelsfontein mine disaster, marked by loss of life and political division, underscores South Africa’s failure to ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to survive, then left to starve.

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 ...

The committee has been called on to immediately exercise its legislative oversight functions and convene an urgent public ...

Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues “resorted to cannibalism”. “They cut parts of legs, arms, and ribs for ...

Many mines are abandoned or liquidated without sufficient protection for rehabilitation funds, and the government does little to track or hold responsible parties accountable.

These individuals were among 93 suspected illegal miners, known as zama zamas, whose bodies were retrieved from the mine between December and January. Authorities continue the ...

Police in North West are still in the process of identifying bodies of illegal miners retrieved during the operation that ended in January.