A gruesome situation in a South African gold mine underscores the problem of illegal mining and the risk people will take for ...

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

The tragedy, which left South Africa divided, and left many illegal miners dead in its wake, unfolded last year after the ...

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 ...

They are often undocumented foreign nationals and authorities said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein ...

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

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 ...

Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87.

STILFONTEIN, South Africa (AP) — Rescuers and volunteers have pulled ... South African authorities have argued that the miners were able to exit through another shaft at Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, one ...

South African police have ended a rescue operation at an abandoned gold mine where hundreds of illegal miners were trapped for months and say they believe they have rescued all the survivors and ...