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.

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.

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

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

A specialized camera was lowered late last year into an almost 2.6-kilometer- (1.6-mile-) deep mineshaft in South Africa ...

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

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

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

The Buffelsfontein Gold Mine, the scene of the disaster ... Zimbabwe and Lesotho, and were in South Africa illegally. Police said they seized gold, explosives, firearms and more than $2 million ...