Some 324 people were pulled out of the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine around 150 kilometres from Johannesburg last week, ending a months-long standoff between the illegal miners and the police.

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

In the Kola region (Murmansk Oblast), the Northern Fleet's 14th army corps will be expanded into a full army. A completely new army corps will be established in Karelia and several brigades will be ...

A team of 402 illegal miners became trapped in the depths of Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in South Africa but only 324 of them emerged when they were pulled out. Seventy-eight of them met a grim fate ...

In August, police began blocking food and water from entering the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein in the North West province of South Africa, to try to force hundreds of illegal ...

Tshoaeli escaped from custody last week after police concluded their operations to bring illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein shaft to the surface. Asaneng said while the purpose of Operation Vala ...

CAPE TOWN - The prevalence of illegal mining was brought into sharp focus by the prolonged removal of zama zamas from the unused Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein. Government was eventually ...

The North West Health Department has confirmed the death of a second illegal miner who was admitted at Klerksdorp/Tshepong Hospital complex. Jonny Shingani, was admitted to the facility ten days ...

In August last year, police moved in on the disused Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein as part of a national SAPS/SANDF operation called “Close the Hole” or “Vala Umgodi” in Zulu, which was ...

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James Neo "Tiger" Tshoaeli allegedly escaped from police custody after he was rescued from the disused Buffelsfontein mine following a week-long operation to extract over 200 others from the shaft.