Rights groups are criticizing South Africa's government for failing to prevent what they call a "massacre" at the Buffelsfontein ... underground in Orkney, North West, forcing them to emerge ...

and five South Africans. Authorities launched an operation in November to force out the men who were mining illegally at the closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine by cutting off their food and water ...

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...

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 ...

FILE: Three illegal miners were arrested after they emerged from shaft 10 at the old Buffelsfontein gold mine in the North West on 28 November ... Workers Union of South Africa (GIWUSA) alleging ...

Cape Town: Workers trapped in a deep gold mine in South Africa for nearly nine months have told how they survived this time. The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a ...

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 ...

A PRESS release issued by MACUA-WAMUA on January 10, 2025, confirmed a landmark ruling by the High Court of South Africa ... of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein, North West.

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the Buffelsfontein ... North West, forcing them to emerge from underground ...