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 ...

The North West department of health says all illegal ... Independent Online, popularly known as IOL, is one of South Africa’s leading news and information websites bringing millions of readers ...

CAPE TOWN, South ... of North West, Major General Patrick Asaneng, speaks to journalists outside an abandoned gold mine, where miners were rescued from below ground, in Stilfontein, South Africa ...

The Acting Provincial Commissioner of North ... West, Major General Patrick Asaneng has ordered maximum resources to be mobilised in finding an alleged kingpin who resurfaced from shaft 11 in ...

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Seventy-eight dead bodies have been brought to the surface of the abandoned gold mine at Stilfontein in South Africa ... with illegal mining.” COSATU North West Secretary Kopano Konopi said ...

Picture: Phill Magakoe / AFP Authorities have claimed that no illegal miners remain underground at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein, North West ... them entered South Africa illegally.

North West Acting Police Commissioner, Patrick Asaneng has promised to soon unmask those behind the scourge of illegal mining in South Africa. Alleged Stilfontein illegal mining kingpin James ...

STILFONTEIN, South Africa — South African police ended ... Patrick Asaneng, the acting police commissioner for North West province. The announcement brought a sudden end to a disaster that ...

has launched a manhunt for an alleged illegal mining ringleader who is believed to have escaped after resurfacing from the Stilfontein gold mine in the North West Province of South Africa.