In mid-January 2024 over 1 000 hunger-weakened miners exited two abandoned mine shafts in Stilfontein, near Johannesburg in ...
Illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine have resorted to cannibalism to survive after authorities cut off ...
Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...
Thousands of illegal miners working at the old Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, near Johannesburg, surrendered but around 400 remained - with only 324 of them making it out alive ...
Tax Justice South Africa urges the government to combat the escalating illicit cigarette trade, highlighting significant tax ...
South Africa's mining industry reported 42 deaths last year, the lowest number to date and a 24% improvement on the previous year, official statistics showed on Thursday.
Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...
Workers trapped in a deep gold mine in South Africa for nearly nine months have told how they survived this time. The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a mine last year ...
The rebels, which Rwanda denies supporting, have long been funded at least in part by the illicit mineral trade.
The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.
The rescue of 246 surviving illegal miners from the Stilfontein shaft in less than three days was enabled by a locally ...