Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months.
They are often undocumented foreign nationals and authorities said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein ...
Months after South Africa’s government began an operation to flush out ... South African authorities began their operation at ...
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 ...
Tom hasn't heard from her brother, Ayanda, since July 2024, when he first told her he'd be going down into the abandoned Buffelsfontein ... a common practice in South Africa, where more than ...
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.