The process to identify 93 bodies of suspected illegal miners retrieved from Buffelsfontein Gold Mine' shaft No. 11 between Tuesday, 03 December 2024 and Wednesday 15 January 2025, is well underway.

Caver John Edward Jones died in the now infamous accident known as the Nutty Putty Cave Incident, and one awful mistake was ...

Caver John Edward Jones died in the now notorous accident known as the Nutty Putty Cave Incident, and one tragic mistake ...

In November 2009, father-of-two John Edward Jones died under the most harrowing circumstances, in a tragedy that would later ...

The pair have been trapped since Saturday after the rope and pulley system they were using to move up and down the shaft ...

Illegal mining is common in many parts of South Africa. Typically, undocumented miners known as zama zamas - from an isiZulu expression for "taking a chance" - move into mines abandoned by commercial ...

A pulley system with a 4-foot-diameter gear, a larger flywheel and steel rope wound around a cylinder peeks over a wall in ...