Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.
SURVIVORS who were trapped in one of the deepest gold mines in South Africa have spoken out about turning to cannibalism 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 ...
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 Democratic Alliance (DA) has delivered a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa, urging him to set up a commission of Inquiry into the ongoing disaster at the Buffelsfontein Mine at Stilfontein ...
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 ...