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.

Workers trapped in a deep gold mine in South Africa for nearly nine months have told how they survived this time. The illegal miners at the Buffelsfontein gold mine were shut down in a mine last year ...

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

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.

Rescuers and volunteers have pulled at least 78 dead miners and more than 160 survivors from an abandoned South African gold ...

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

The mine has been the scene of a tense standoff between police and miners since authorities launched an operation to force ...

Tom hasn't heard from her brother, Ayanda, since July 2024, when he first told her he'd be going down into the abandoned Buffelsfontein Gold Mine in Stilfontein to mine illegally. At first ...

Nearly 2,000 miners were working illegally underground at the Buffelsfontein Gold Mine southwest of Johannesburg, police said. In total, 87 of them died underground, with 78 bodies retrieved in ...

The national crackdown against illegal mining began in late 2023, in part spurred by the rise of violent crime in communities ...

A suspected illegal gold mining ringleader known as “Tiger” escaped from custody with help from police officers after ...