The bodies were discovered during an intense four-day rescue operation from Monday, 13 January. A total of 246 survivors, ...

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

Stories of desperation and survival have emerged from survivors of the several months long standoff between miners and police ...

Credit: AP/Themba Hadebe 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 ...

Zimbabwean authorities are reportedly reluctant to directly confront the South African government over the deaths of 20 Zimbabweans at the Buffelsfontein Gold ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the ...

Survivors, rescuers and families of the dead and missing say they have been abandoned — branded as criminals for trying to ...

South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine last year. That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described by a ...

The prospectors were trapped underground for months as police, on orders from South Africa’s government, attempted to starve them out.

This followed accusations from union GIWUSA alleging SAPS arrested Mzwandile Mkwayi to prevent him from speaking about the ...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police ...