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

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

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

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 ...

South African authorities have for years struggled to stop groups of miners from going into some of the gold-rich country's 6 ...

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

South African authorities have come under intense scrutiny for their response after civic groups said hundreds of miners have been trapped deep in an abandoned gold mine for months.

Residents desperately waiting for news of family members gathered at the mine, some holding placards criticizing authorities ...

NINE bodies were among illegal miners retrieved from the Buffelsfontein gold mine in Stilfontein following rescue operations ...

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