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 well underway.
After six months trapped underground, roughly 246 illegal miners were rescued at Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, ...
These individuals were among 93 suspected illegal miners, known as zama zamas, whose bodies were retrieved from the mine ...
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.
Police tactics of blocking essential supplies at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine to trigger fear of death and further jeopardize the miners’ lives, and the incendiary language used by 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 ...
The bodies of almost 90 illegal miners were brought to the surface of an abandoned shaft when police intensified an operation ...
The South African government’s approach - “smoking out” miners and branding them as criminals - fails to address the root ...
The accused appeared before the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court on Friday and were released on R1 000 bail each.
Police in North West are still in the process of identifying bodies of illegal miners retrieved during the operation that ended in January.
The Buffelsfontein mine disaster, marked by loss of life and political division, underscores South Africa’s failure to ...