Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...
Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...
An abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025.
Spread This NewsBy Darlington Gatsi ZIMBABWEAN authorities in South Africa are hesitant to confront the government about its role in the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in ...
Food and other supplies were cut off to those inside the mine by local authorities who want the miners to surrender to police because they were mining illegally.
Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve them out.
South African police say a suspected illegal gold mining ringleader escaped from custody with help from police officers about ...
They are often undocumented foreign nationals and authorities said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein mine were from Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho, and were in South Africa ...