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 ...
In South Africa last month, 78 gold diggers died in an underground rescue effort. The illegal miners, locally referred to as ...
The South African government’s approach - “smoking out” miners and branding them as criminals - fails to address the root ...
Rescue operations were deployed to the disused mine in Florida on Saturday after the desperate cries of trapped zama zamas were heard echoing from the shaft.
The Buffelsfontein mine disaster, marked by loss of life and political division, underscores South Africa’s failure to ...
North West Health MEC Sello Lehari will provide an update today, on the completion of autopsies of deceased illegal miners ...
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 ...
Gold built South Africa, and in no other country has it been pursued to greater depths. Thanks to the tremendous reserves of gold and diamonds beneath its surface, the land once considered “the least ...
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 ...