At least 78 were dead when 324 miners were taken out of the shaft following months of ordeal as stand-ff between miners the ...

The two survivors speak quietly as they recount how emaciated miners broke the ultimate taboo to avoid dying of hunger.

The Buffelsfontein gold mine in South Africa has become a grim site with dozens of illegal miners dead and more trapped ...

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

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

Reportedly, the authorities adopted a hardline approach by cutting off the food and water supply of the illegal miners to ...

More than 240 survivors have been brought to the surface, many severely emaciated after being trapped since November.

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

South Africa’s president is facing calls to order an inquiry into a police operation that was meant to combat illegal mining ...

FILE: Three illegal miners were arrested after they emerged from shaft 10 at the old Buffelsfontein gold mine in the North West on 28 November 2024. Picture: Katlego Jiyane/EWN CAPE TOWN - Police ...

The miners were trapped in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine near Stilfontein following a standoff with police that began in November, 2024. Police had launched an operation to force the miners ...

Rights groups are criticizing South Africa’s government for failing to prevent what they call a “massacre” at the Buffelsfontein mine, after security officials cut off food, water ...