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Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...

The bodies of almost 90 illegal miners were brought to the surface of an abandoned shaft when police intensified an operation ...

The miners were trapped in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein following a standoff with police that began in November, 2024. Police had launched an operation to force the miners ...

(Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images) NINE bodies were among illegal miners retrieved from the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein following rescue operations which started on Monday.

FILE: Three illegal miners were arrested after they emerged from shaft 10 at the old Buffelsfontein gold mine in the North West on 28 November 2024. Picture: Katlego Jiyane/EWN CAPE TOWN - Police ...

The Buffelsfontein mine disaster, marked by loss of life and political division, underscores South Africa’s failure to ...

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6,000 abandoned or closed mines to search for leftover deposits. According ...

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 ...

SURVIVORS who were trapped in one of the deepest gold mines in South Africa have spoken out about turning to cannibalism to ...