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 ...

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

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 ...

The organisations called on the portfolio committee to immediately exercise its legislative oversight functions.

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

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...

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 ...

South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold ... was condemned by one of South Africa’s biggest trade unions.

These individuals were among 93 suspected illegal miners, known as zama zamas, whose bodies were retrieved from the mine ...

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 ...

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