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

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

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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 Buffelsfontein mine, after security officials cut off food, water, and other essential ...

Nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally underground at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine ... Illegal mining is rife at some of South Africa’s approximately 6,000 disused or abandoned mines where ...

South Africa's second biggest political party, which is part of a government coalition, has called on President Cyril Ramaphosa to order an inquiry into what happened at the Buffelsfontein mine.

The bodies of 78 zama zamas were recovered from the Buffelsfontein gold mine this ... Zimbabwe's Consul-General in South Africa, Eria Phiri, said it's unclear yet who will foot the bill for ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP ... vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein mine were from Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho, and were in South Africa illegally. Police said they seized ...

They are often undocumented foreign nationals and authorities said that the vast majority who came out of the Buffelsfontein mine were from Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Lesotho, and were in South Africa ...