At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...
Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...
Spread This NewsBy Darlington Gatsi ZIMBABWEAN authorities in South Africa are hesitant to confront the government about its ...
Zimbabwean authorities are reportedly reluctant to directly confront the South African government over the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold ...
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
They are often undocumented foreign nationals and authorities said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein ...
South African authorities have argued that the miners were always able to exit through another shaft at Buffelsfontein Gold ... a strong reaction across South Africa, where illegal mining is ...
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 ...
South Africa's second biggest political party ... “The scale of the disaster underground at Buffelsfontein is rapidly proving to be as bad as feared,” the Democratic Alliance party said.