Their lights illuminated a sea of emaciated faces, men crowded into a chamber who were crying and pleading to be saved from the pitch black of the abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine. The miners ...

the police began blocking food and water from entering the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein in the North West ...

The South African government spent just over R30 million retrieving suspects involved in illegal mining at the Buffelsfontein ...

Police said the miners were refusing to come out of the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine for fear of arrest, but Mnguni said they had been left trapped underground after police removed the ropes they used ...

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe said it was false to claim government refused to rescue zama zamas ...

The Department of Mineral Resources is facing backlash from advocacy groups, including the South African Civic Organisation ...

Of the 1,826 "zama zamas" or illegal miners arrested in the Vala Umgodi operation at the Buffelsfontein gold mine in ...

As Operation Vala Umgodi nears its end, the need for setting up a permanent, specialist police unit to combat illegal mining ...

They were printed in four languages – English, isiXhosa, Sotho and Tsonga – and read: ‘We urge all miners to exit at Margaret Shaft as it is the safest existing exit.’ Lepheana was trapped in Shaft 11 ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) After six months trapped underground, roughly 246 illegal miners were rescued at Buffelsfontein Gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, in mid-January following a court ...

Tshoaeli had resurfaced from Shaft 11 at the abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine during ... far from the rubble-strewn graves of the miners who died for it. Remember Marikana.

The operation to force the miners out of the Buffelsfontein mine that started last year was part of a larger one that resulted in more than 1,500 illegal miners surfacing from mines and being ...