After Fulani leaders in some Zamfara communities failed to prevail on wanted bandits’ kingpin, Bello Turji, not to carry out his threats to launch fresh attacks, his followers have reportedly ...

Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, has become a focal point in the battle against illegal mining. As part of Operation Vala Umgodi (“Close the Hole”), authorities have sealed numerous ...

Macua added that the high court’s decision to not force the government and the Buffelsfontein mine to rescue the miners is “legally and morally untenable”. It said the court “acknowledged ...

The organisation said the court’s decision shielded the state and the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine from accountability. “The Gauteng Division of the High Court, Pretoria, ruled that impoverished ...

Myburgh explained that there are three shafts used as entry and exit points — Margaret Shaft, Buffelsfontein shaft 10 and Buffelsfontein shaft 11. More illegal miners were still making their way ...

“Of the 26 illegal miners, four resurfaced at Margaret Shaft and 22 at Buffelsfontein shaft no 10,” explained North West police spokesperson Adele Myburgh. According to police, the group ...

They are part of a group of so-called zama-zamas who resurfaced from the Magaret and Buffelsfontein shafts this week. ALSO READ: 26 more illegal miners resurfaced from Stilfontein mine this ...

ALSO READ: MACUA heads to court to halt govt from violating rights of zama zamas in Stilfontein Four of them resurfaced from the Magaret shaft and 22 at the Buffelsfontein shaft No. 10.

After weeks working — then later, trapped and starved by violent gang leaders — in the abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, he clung weakly to a makeshift pulley winching him to ...

The Democratic Alliance notes the scathing judgment of a Full Bench of the Western Cape High Court in the appeal of John Hlophe and the MK Party against the decision taken in September granting an ...