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 ...

Rights groups say the South African police cut off food and water supplies to starve the miners out, resulting in at least 87 ...

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

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

Late last year, a specialized camera was lowered into an almost 1.6-mile-deep mineshaft in South Africa where hundreds of ...

A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...

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The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster, became a police target in August but it was only in November that ...

South African authorities have been fiercely criticized for cutting off food and supplies to the miners in the Buffelsfontein ...

AP South Africa’s Buffelsfontein Gold Mine has become the center of a storm. Civic groups say at least 100 miners have died in an abandoned gold mine and that hundreds of others remain trapped deep ...