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.
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After six months trapped underground, roughly 246 illegal miners were rescued at Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, ...
The illegal gold miners had been trapped in the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, 150km from Johannesburg. Survivors have spoken out about their desperate efforts to stay alive as they grew ...
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 Buffelsfontein mine disaster, marked by loss of life and political division, underscores South Africa’s failure to ...
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 ...
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allAfrica.com on MSNSouth Africa: Process Underway to Identify Suspected Illegal Miners' BodiesPress 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 ...
and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the police in August began blocking food and water from entering the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein in a bid to ...
Police have called on members of the public who suspect their loved ones were working on abandoned mines in the Khuma, Stilfontein to come forward.
Stilfontein: Four cops granted bail after illegal mining kingpin escape as more zama zamas resurface
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 illegal gold miners had been trapped in the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, 150km from Johannesburg. Hundreds of men were trapped nearly a mile underground for nine months during a ...
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