The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine ... Zimbabwe and Lesotho, and were in South Africa illegally. Police said they seized gold, explosives, firearms and more than $2 million in cash from the miners ...

South Africa's second biggest political party ... “The scale of the disaster underground at Buffelsfontein is rapidly proving to be as bad as feared,” the Democratic Alliance party said.

Four National Intervention Unit (NIU) officers, part of Operation Vala Umgodi at Stilfontein, appeared in court for aiding an ...

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 ...

North West police have dismissed reports that illegal mining kingpin James “Tiger” Tsoaeli, who escaped from custody in Stilfontein, has died. Tsoaeli resurfaced from a shaft at the Buffelsfontein ...

POTCHEFSTROOM — The process to identify 93 bodies of suspected illegal miners retrieved from Buffelsfontein Gold ... by and about Africa - aggregating, producing and distributing 500 news ...

The Buffelsfontein incident in South Africa, where 246 illegal miners were trapped underground, underscores the need for improved security governance at abandoned mining sites.

The highly specialised equipment of emergency preparedness and response organisation Mines Rescue Services South Africa ...

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.

Our MMRW demonstrated South Africa’s capacity to develop world ... who had refused to exit Shafts 10 and 11 of the former Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, at Stilfontein, in the North West, for more ...