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 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 ...

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 ...

Tshoaeli escaped from custody last week after police concluded their operations to bring illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein shaft to the surface. Asaneng said while the purpose of Operation Vala ...

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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 ...

Investors will watch meeting outcome to see if President Donald Trump’s policies will affect the central bank’s views ...

In August last year, police moved in on the disused Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein as part of a national SAPS/SANDF operation called “Close the Hole” or “Vala Umgodi” in Zulu, which was ...

James Neo "Tiger" Tshoaeli allegedly escaped from police custody after he was rescued from the disused Buffelsfontein mine following a week-long operation to extract over 200 others from the shaft.

The North West Health Department has confirmed the death of a second illegal miner who was admitted at Klerksdorp/Tshepong Hospital complex. Jonny Shingani, was admitted to the facility ten days ...

The DA calls on President Cyril Ramaphosa to immediately establish an independent Commission of Inquiry into all aspects of what happened at Buffelsfontein mine so that those who have been derelict in ...