Gcina Lepheana had been working deep in the illegal mine for five months when, in October last year, deliveries ...

After six months trapped underground, roughly 246 illegal miners were rescued at Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, ...

Trapped nearly a mile beneath the earth after police blocked their food and water, one recalled how some of his colleagues “resorted to cannibalism”. “They cut parts of legs, arms, and ribs for ...

The illegal gold miners had been trapped in the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, 150km from Johannesburg. Survivors have spoken out about their desperate efforts to stay alive as they grew ...

The organisations called on the portfolio committee to immediately exercise its legislative oversight functions.

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 North West High Court has ordered a group of business owners and community members in Khuma, near Stilfontein ...

In South Africa, illegal miners make a living by trespassing in old gold mines to retrieve what is left. In August year, police began to attempt to force people out of the old Buffelsfontein Gold ...

Police in North West are still in the process of identifying bodies of illegal miners retrieved during the operation that ended in January.

The accused appeared before the Stilfontein Magistrate's Court on Friday and were released on R1 000 bail each.

unfolded last year after the police in August began blocking food and water from entering the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein in a bid to try and force illegal miners back to the surface.

It said Tshoaeli could be considered a henchman, not a kingpin. Tshoeli resurfaced from a shaft at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein on January 15, during a government-sanctioned rescue ...