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 ...
Johannesburg: A total of 118 illegal miners were brought to the surface during rescue operations at an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein in South Africa's North West Province, with 36 confirmed ...
In a staggering display of cruelty, South African police laid siege to an illegal gold mine near Johannesburg, leaving at ...
notes with sadness the gravity of the human tragedy that occurred at Stilfontein in the North West Province of South Africa over the last few weeks. The death of at least seventy-eight miners ...
The North West department of health says all illegal ... Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing millions of readers ...
The Mine Rescue Services (MRS) team tasked with retrieving miners trapped in Shaft 11 of the abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine on the outskirts of Stilfontein, North West, worked well into the ...
North West Acting Police Commissioner, Patrick Asaneng has promised to soon unmask those behind the scourge of illegal mining in South Africa. Alleged Stilfontein illegal mining kingpin James ...
Stilfontein (Afrikaans for quiet spring ... situated between Klerksdorp and Potchefstroom in North West Province of South Africa. It was incorporated into the City of Matlosana and some ...