South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine last year. That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described ...

Disused shafts like Buffelsfontein attract desperate gold seekers who face hazardous conditions and deadly collapses. Zama zamas often lack documentation, complicating identification, especially ...

Stilfontein, South Africa — The death toll in a monthslong standoff between police and miners trapped while working illegally in an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87 ...

More than 240 survivors have been rescued at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, Stilfontein, since operations began. Many of the miners, labeled "Zama zamas—"hustlers" in the Zulu language—for their ...

Masechaba Sefularo/Jacaranda FM News This after a video of a miner being assaulted, purportedly at the Buffelsfontein gold mine, where scores of suspected illegal miners have been underground ...

According to a statement from the South African Police Service (SAPS) on Tuesday night, 106 illegal miners were arrested for illegal mining at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein, North ...

Police brought out 324 bodies and survivors in total. The closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine was the scene of a standoff in November when police tried to force the miners out by cutting off their ...