CAPE TOWN - The prevalence of illegal mining was brought into sharp focus by the prolonged removal of zama zamas from the unused Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein. Government was eventually ...
The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster, became a police target in August but it was only in November that the miners' situation drew the attention of rights groups. Activists ...
Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped miners at an abandoned gold mine, where ...
South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine last year. That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described ...
The DA in Parliament has written a letter to President Cyril Ramaphosa, urging him to establish a Commission of Inquiry into the Stilfontein mine tragedy. Nearly 80 illegal miners have died at the ...
JOHANNESBURG - As operations in Stilfontein wind down, Zimbabwean officials have been roped in to help identify and repatriate the remains of scores of illegal miners back to the neighbouring country.
South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine last year. That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described ...
Disused shafts like Buffelsfontein attract desperate gold seekers who face hazardous conditions and deadly collapses. Zama zamas often lack documentation, complicating identification, especially ...
More than 240 survivors have been rescued at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, Stilfontein, since operations began. Many of the miners, labeled "Zama zamas—"hustlers" in the Zulu language—for their ...
The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87, police said Thursday.
Supplied: SAPS On Wednesday, 78 bodies of illegal miners were retrieved from Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, and 140 were arrested. Authorities began trying to remove the bodies and bring up survivors ...
According to a statement from the South African Police Service (SAPS) on Tuesday night, 106 illegal miners were arrested for illegal mining at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein, North ...
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