Why did 87 miners die trapped underground in South Africa as …
1 day ago · The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster, became a police target in August but it was only in November that the miners’ situation drew the attention of rights groups. Activists warned that hundreds of miners were trapped up to 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) underground and desperately needed food, water and other supplies.
Remains of more than 70 Stilfontein illegal miners yet to be …
1 day ago · Remains of more than 70 Stilfontein illegal miners yet to be identified The bodies of 78 zama zamas were recovered from the Buffelsfontein gold mine this week during a government-led operation to ...
Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and feared starving in an ...
3 days ago · Authorities launched an operation in November to force out the men who were mining illegally at the closed Buffelsfontein Gold Mine by cutting off their food and water supplies from the surface for a period of time. Police say the miners can come out but are refusing for fear of being arrested. (AP video/Alfonso Nqunjana)
High court orders immediate rescue of trapped Stilfontein miners
3 days ago · The Buffelsfontein miners’ plight mirrors the larger pattern of exploitation and abandonment that has plagued South Africa’s mining communities for decades. The industry has prioritised ...
Trapped underground with decaying bodies, miners faced a dark …
9 hours ago · The miners had been stuck there following a nationwide police operation to end illicit mining at disused sites that had closed, as the industry – once the backbone of the country's economy ...
At least 100 illegal miners have died while trapped in a South …
4 days ago · A group representing informal miners in South Africa says at least 100 men who were mining illegally in an abandoned gold mine have died after being trapped deep ... The operation to force the miners out of the Buffelsfontein mine that started last year was part of a larger one that resulted in more than 1,500 illegal miners surfacing from ...
Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger over …
1 day ago · South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine last year. That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described ...
South Africa arrests over 100 illegal miners after underground …
3 days ago · An operation to rescue the miners from the Buffelsfontein mine, 160km west of Johannesburg, began on Monday after a judge ordered authorities to act on humanitarian grounds. Harrowing accounts ...
Death and Desperation in South Africa's Illegal Gold Mines
1 day ago · Mounted police patrol the area during rescue operations for trapped miners at the abandoned Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein, South Africa, on Jan. 14. Photographer: Leon Sadiki/Bloomberg ...
Why hundreds of miners are still trapped and starving in …
3 days ago · But groups representing the miners dispute that and say they are trapped up to 2.5 kilometers (1.5 miles) below the surface in one of the country's deepest mines and a proper rescue operation ...