The tragedy at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in South Africa on 16th January,2025 rescue of 246 illegal miners and 78 to 87 ...

The bodies of almost 90 illegal miners were pulled from an abandoned shaft earlier in 2025 when police intensified an ...

The North West Health Department has given paupers' burials to 30 of the unclaimed bodies from the Stilfontein illegal mining ...

The North West Health Department says the remaining 23 bodies of illegal miners who were retrieved from shaft 11 in Stilfontein, will be buried once all necessary administration has been completed.

The 260 miners who were trapped underground at a Sibanye-Stillwater gold mine in South Africa were all safely brought to the ...

POTCHEFSTROOM — The process to identify 93 bodies of suspected illegal miners retrieved from Buffelsfontein Gold Mine' shaft No. 11 between Tuesday, 03 December 2024 and Wednesday 15 January ...

Andrew Grant has received grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Benjamin Ofosu-Atuahene has received funding in the form of an Ontario Graduate Scholarship.

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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Last week, rescuers recovered 78 bodies and 246 survivors — many of them weak and emaciated — from the Buffelsfontein mine in Stilfontein, in South Africa’s North West province, where police ...