A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...
Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
South African authorities have argued that the miners were always able to exit through another shaft at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine ... across South Africa, where illegal mining is often in the ...
The accused appeared before the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court on Friday and were released on R1 000 bail each.
An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
Rescuers recovered 51 additional bodies from an abandoned gold mine in South Africa on Tuesday, raising the death toll to 60 after nine bodies were retrieved on Monday, the first day of a massive ...
Spread This NewsBy Darlington Gatsi ZIMBABWEAN authorities in South Africa are hesitant to confront the government about its role in the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in ...