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 2024. Picture: Katlego Jiyane/EWN CAPE TOWN - Police ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the Buffelsfontein mine, after security officials cut off food, water ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa's government for failing to prevent what they call a "massacre" at the Buffelsfontein mine, after security officials cut off food, water, and other ...

Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster, became a police target in August but it was only in November that the miners' situation drew the attention of ...

The large group was arrested during a special operation to retrieve scores of zama zamas at the Buffelsfontein gold mine. During the three-day-long mission, more than 240 people resurfaced while ...

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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 ...

The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster, became a police target in August but it was only in November that the miners' situation drew the attention of rights groups. Activists ...

Nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally underground at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine south west of Johannesburg, police said. In total, 87 of them died underground, with 78 bodies retrieved in ...

A miner is transported on a stretcher by rescue workers after he was rescued from below ground in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa (Themba Hadebe/AP) The death toll in a months ...