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

South African engineering innovation was put on the map after world-first rescue technology was used to save 246 lives in the ...

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 ...

The standoff between police and illegal miners in South Africa's Buffelsfontein Gold Mine has led to at least 87 deaths. Authorities faced criticism for cutting off food supplies, leading to charges ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Mine rescue workers host up a cage that was used to rescue trapped ...

News today includes authorities have claimed that no illegal miners remain underground at the Buffelsfontein Gold ... Furthermore, South Africa has welcomed the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal ...

STILFONTEIN, South ... in the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine last year. That tactic to “smoke them out,” as described by a prominent Cabinet minister, was condemned by one of South Africa’s ...