The organisations called on the portfolio committee to immediately exercise its legislative oversight functions.
The bodies of almost 90 illegal miners were brought to the surface of an abandoned shaft when police intensified an operation ...
Police tactics of blocking essential supplies at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine to trigger fear of death and further jeopardize the miners’ lives, and the incendiary language used by public ...
The bodies of 78 dead miners have been retrieved from a shaft in Buffelsfontein mine's Shaft 11 after being trapped underground since last August by the South African police who cut-off food and water ...
Police tactics of blocking essential supplies at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine to trigger fear of death and further jeopardize the miners' lives, and the incendiary language used by public ...
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 ...
Their lights illuminated a sea of emaciated faces, men crowded into a chamber who were crying and pleading to be saved from the pitch black of the abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine. The miners ...
The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a mine last year after a standoff with police. The miners, trapped a mile below the ground, were recently evacuated.
In South Africa last month, 78 gold diggers died in an underground rescue effort. The illegal miners, locally referred to as ...
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 Buffelsfontein mine disaster, marked by loss of life and political division, underscores South Africa’s failure to ...