“There is nothing that we would do differently,” Maj. Gen. Patrick Asaneng, acting police commissioner of North West province, where Buffelsfontein is located, said at a press conference Thursday.

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.

Police say the death toll in a standoff with miners trapped while working illegally at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87.

The standoff at Buffelsfontein began in August 2024, when nearly 2,000 miners descended into the decommissioned mine, southwest of Johannesburg, seeking residual gold deposits.

Although Buffelsfontein is known as having measured the coldest temperature in South Africa previously, this occurred during an exceptional cold spell whereas on Friday temperatures at most other ...

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 ...

Mineral Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe visited the site Tuesday and said that more than 1,500 miners who resurfaced from the Buffelsfontein mine have been arrested since authorities began a ...

A mineworker has been killed at Simmer & Jack's Buffelsfontein Mine in the North West Province, the company said on Thursday. "The incident took place at the number two shaft in the early hours of ...

The properties on which the present Buffelsfontein mine is based were first founded in 1954 and 1955, according to information on Village Main’s website. Even today, the life of mine at Buffelsfontein ...

A miner has died at Simmers & Jack's Buffelsfontein gold mine, the company said on Friday. Hydraulic prop team leader Lebajoa Takana was killed in a fall of ground incident at the Buffelsfontein ...